Re: [Gimp-developer] Reg:Usuage of the Gimp for my Organization

[C R <cajhne gmail com>]

I have also changed the spelling of licence to license since that's how it
is all over the gnu website. lol Guess the Americans win this round. ;)

On Fri, Sep 18, 2015 at 7:40 PM, C R <cajhne gmail com> wrote:

> I included a reminder about the warranty it because it's included in big
> bold letters in the about information for GIMP. I have no basis for judging
> whether that's necessary or not, other than someone thought it was worth
> shouting digitally about. :)
>
> -C
>
> On Fri, Sep 18, 2015 at 7:13 PM, Gez <listas ohweb com ar> wrote:
>
> > El vie, 18-09-2015 a las 14:10 -0300, Gez escribió:
> >
> > > "The program itself is governed by the terms of the GNU General
> > > Public
> > > License (GPL) which ensures that users have freedom to use the
> > > program
> > > with any purpose, study and modify its source code and share
> > > modifications to the community. You are allowed and encouraged to
> > > share
> > > the program with your friends and colleagues, install it in your
> > > school
> > > or organization and use it for any purpose.
> > > If you're planning to modify the program and re-distribute it with
> > > your
> > > modifications, make sure that you make the source code available too.
> > > That's the only obligation required by the license.
> > > Follow [this link] if you need more information abut the GNU General
> > > Public License."
> >
> > I missed the "no warranty" bit. Is it really necessary? If yes, why?
> > Is it some required legal waiver or just a kind way of saying "don't
> > blame us if something went wrong and you lose your work"?
> >
> > Personally I find that kind of stuff really unnecessary. It's like
> > making an excuse in advance: "look, it may fail, don't blame us".
> > If someone wants to sue you I don't think the "no warranty" claim will
> > make any difference. But seriously, who would do that?
> >
> > I've been working with software for 20 years, I've lost count of the
> > times I've lost work because software failed, crashed or froze.
> > I may or may not cursed the software and its makers when that happened,
> > but never thought about suing the makers for the half hour of work I
> > lost because I forgot to hit CTRL+S (or CTRL+E :-p)
> >
> > That being said, GIMP is probably the most stable software I use, which
> > makes that remark even more unnecessary.
> >
> > Gez.
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