Cees De Groot wrote on Wed, 11 Jan 2006 11:22:34 +0100
On 1/11/06, stéphane ducasse ducasse@iam.unibe.ch wrote:
- What is my responsibility as a distributor of Squeak if the user
gets damaged by using Squeak?
I'd say zero - look at all the disclaimers in the SqueakL. Unless of course the user can prove neglect or something.
Exactly! But in the real world there is *nothing* you can do that will keep a user from suing you anyway. And they might decide to sue Apple and in that case you agreed to pay for Apple's legal expenses (this is the part the scared the Debian folks). The user might decide to sue the USA government or Woody Allen because of some problem they had with Squeak. You can't prevent it. Of course, in the latter two cases it wouldn't be your problem, only in the first two.
But to reinforce what Cees said: the license clearly states that neither you nor Apple can be held reponsible for anything that happens to someone who gets Squeak from you.
-- Jecel