GPL Issue

[Joe Bell]

He can always sue, that doesn't imply a court would rule in his favor.  

 

Terms 11 and 12 cover no warranties expressed or implied, if you use the
application you are accepting these terms.  

 

In my opinion there is nothing preventing you from explicitly stating
the no warranties expressed or implied at the very top (not a reordering
of the GPL, but an introduction)- if they don't accept that they can
stop there.  

 

From: Shlomo Zalman Heigh [mailto:szh1 at szh1.com] 
Sent: Monday, September 20, 2010 2:37 PM
To: license-discuss at opensource.org
Subject: GPL Issue

 

The GPL says that the user is not required to accept the license. If my
user doesn't accept the license, and (I assume) he can still use the
software without distributing it, if there is a bug that damages his
computer, can he sue me for it? If so, is there a license that doesn't
have this issue?

Thanks,

Shlomo Zalman Heigh
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