Why use Warranty Disclaimers?

[Oleksandr Gavenko]

On 2010-12-07 18:49, Ben Tilly wrote:
> 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.
Thanks for replays to all!

wiki links you provide is goot start point for reading.

> Although I'm admittedly unclear on how getting something
> for free would qualify as a sale.
That is interesting question!

I think that putting sources and binaries on SorceForge,
GoogleCode, LanchPad, GitHub, ... etc free hosting
services for open source program is not form of
sale contract with potential downloaders.

Such service MUST put disclaimer of warranty
because they promote itself in some way
(they state on main page or in press that they good
and user can download useful progs!).

But each individual developer must not?

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Best regards!