On Thu, Jan 26, 2006 at 12:12:55PM +0400, olive wrote: olive> Non-warranty clause are illegal in Europe. However the warranty applies olive> only in the case of commercial transaction. I am not sure you can claim olive> any warranty for a software that you have downloaded at no cost; wether olive> it has a non-waranty clause or not. But it is true that if you sell a olive> GPL software (or other free or non-free software); you must provides a olive> warranty (at least in Europe). This warranty cover only "what is olive> normally expected for the software by a normal user": it does not say olive> that you can sue the person who have sell you the software for any bugs olive> it may contain. Er, no. There is an automatic warranty in sales, but you can contractually dismiss it. And licensing software is not selling it. I do concede that that to which you refer is a common (but erreoneous) perception. The only tricky questions are that of gross misconduct of the licensor, which can only be dismissed by explicit provisions of a contract, and it is disputed whether or not clauses such as those found in the GPL and other free software licenses are specific enough. But basically apart from that they are valid. Having written pretty thoroughly about the subject, I have Belgian (and to a lesser extent, french) references galore if you wish. I can send you the article if it is of interest to you. -- Yorick
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