Re: Minolta releases SCSI specs!

Matto Marjanovic (maddog@mir.com)
Tue, 21 Dec 1999 16:00:32 -0500

>> However, it does have one clause that concerns me. It reads:
>>
>> "The Receiving Party [the programmer] shall indemnify, hold harmless,
>> and defend the Disclosing Party [Minolta] from and against any claims,
>> liabilities, damages and suits, including reasonable attorney's fees,
>> that arise or are related to any program created under this
>> Declaration."
>>
>> It's the bit about defending Minolta that troubles me. This seems to
>> suggest that if someone cooks their scanner using my driver and sues

....

>c) Surely you can achieve complete aviodance of the issue by adding the
>usual "this s/w is not fit for any purpose blah, blah"?

Shouldn't this part of the GPL (quoted at the top of each backend source
file) take care of this?

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
General Public License for more details.

-matt m.

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