Comment by teddyh
2 years ago
That text does not disclaim support, security bugfixes, and future development. On the contrary, all three of those things are probably either heavlily implied or outright stated to be available on the project web site.
2 years ago
That text does not disclaim support, security bugfixes, and future development. On the contrary, all three of those things are probably either heavlily implied or outright stated to be available on the project web site.
You and I are reading "SHOULD THE PROGRAM PROVE DEFECTIVE, YOU ASSUME THE COST OF ALL NECESSARY SERVICING, REPAIR OR CORRECTION." very differently.
At best, that only covers bug fixes. And, as I said, bug fixes are usually implied to be available in future releases.
> At best, that only covers bug fixes. And, as I said, bug fixes are usually implied to be available in future releases
Can you explain how you got to that interpretation from that phrasing?
> SHOULD THE PROGRAM PROVE DEFECTIVE, YOU ASSUME THE COST OF ALL NECESSARY SERVICING, REPAIR OR CORRECTION.
And how is future development and / or support not covered under servicing of that clause?
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It also doesn't disclaim the author from writing you a check out of the good will of their heart.
I genuinely don't understand what's so difficult to grasp here.
> * It also doesn't disclaim the author from writing you a check out of the good will of their heart.*
Nobody expects that. But people do reasonably expect a project to recieve updates, security fixes, and new releases.
I'm not disagreeing with you, you're just wrong.
It's not reasonable to expect a project to receive updates, security fixes, and new releases for software projects the author put on the Internet explicitly with a license saying it's warrantied for no purpose, both explicit and implicit.
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