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Re: GCC Testing Efforts web page: gcc.gnu.org/testing
- From: dewar at gnat dot com (Robert Dewar)
- To: jbuck at synopsys dot com, rschiele at uni-mannheim dot de
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, hp at bitrange dot com, janis187 at us dot ibm dot com,ljrittle at freebsd dot org, phil at jaj dot com,schiele at pi3 dot informatik dot uni-mannheim dot de
- Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 18:15:07 -0500 (EST)
- Subject: Re: GCC Testing Efforts web page: gcc.gnu.org/testing
> Nothing provided by the FSF (or other free software providers) has a
> warranty. If you want to warn people that something is probably not
> robust, "no warranty" probably isn't a good way to do it.
That's not the case.
First of all, disclaimer of warranty is only possible within certain legal
limits, so depending on the juridiction when anyone supplies you anything
there will be some warranty implications.
Second, any free software supplier is free to make whatever warranty or
guarantee statements they wish to make. It is perfectly fine to sell such
warranties for a fee! For example GNAT Pro comes with some specific guarantees
that are documented in the license statement that accompanies GNAT Pro.
Of course the basic license is the GPL, but we add certain guarantees to
this basic licensing (as well as provide the fundamental guarantee that the
software is in fact licensed properly under the GPL).
Note that the GPL specifically says that either there may be no warranty
or that you may provide a warranty for a fee. This is in section 2c among
other places.