Why use Warranty Disclaimers?
Ben Tilly
btilly at gmail.com
Tue Dec 7 16:49:44 UTC 2010
2010/12/7 Dag-Erling Smørgrav <des at des.no>:
> Oleksandr Gavenko <gavenkoa at gmail.com> writes:
>> Suppose I put my code without Warranty Disclaimers into web and don't
>> sell/promote/advertise it and some one use it.
>>
>> Then this person can damage me in judgement?
>
> In the civilized world, no. In the US, yes.
I believe that the US gets this from common law, which makes me wonder
whether similar things are true in much of the English-speaking world.
(However the USA is more litigious, so it would be a bigger issue
here.)
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Implied_warranty for some general
background. Although I'm admittedly unclear on how getting something
for free would qualify as a sale.
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