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GPL may be unenforceable under German law (InfoWorld)GPL may be unenforceable under German law (InfoWorld)Posted Aug 7, 2003 12:24 UTC (Thu) by cross (subscriber, #13601)In reply to: GPL may be unenforceable under German law (InfoWorld) by coriordan Parent article: GPL may be unenforceable under German law (InfoWorld)
As has been pointed out by others, what the GPL actually says is "THERE IS NO WARRANTY FOR THE PROGRAM, TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW". So far as I can see, this basically means that you get whatever your jurisdiction decides is the minimum norm for this type of good but the author offers no extra. That's quite different. If you want an "extended warranty" on the product it's up to you to arrange that, which is quite common even for unrelated goods. Toasters and washing machines for example. The extended warranty can in fact be quite lucrative in its own right, to the extent that IIRC there's currently an EU investigation underway into the market for them. An extended warrantly is one of the things that a distributor such as SuSE can bring to the table to add value.
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