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<title>sane-devel: Re: Minolta releases SCSI specs!</title>
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<h1>Re: Minolta releases SCSI specs!</h1>
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<b>Matto Marjanovic</b> (<a href="mailto:maddog@mir.com"><i>maddog@mir.com</i></a>)<br>
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<i>Tue, 21 Dec 1999 16:00:32 -0500</i>
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<li> <b>Next message:</b> <a href="0140.html">Ekkard Gerlach: "Re: Mustek SE 12000 SP Plus"</a>
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<li> <b>Previous message:</b> <a href="0138.html">Michael Wein: "snapscan310, aha152x(05), de-pnp'd"</a>
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<li> <b>Maybe in reply to:</b> <a href="0134.html">David Rose: "Minolta releases SCSI specs!"</a>
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<i> >> However, it does have one clause that concerns me. It reads:</i><br>
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<i> >> </i><br>
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<i> >> "The Receiving Party [the programmer] shall indemnify, hold harmless,</i><br>
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<i> >> and defend the Disclosing Party [Minolta] from and against any claims,</i><br>
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<i> >> liabilities, damages and suits, including reasonable attorney's fees,</i><br>
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<i> >> that arise or are related to any program created under this</i><br>
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<i> >> Declaration."</i><br>
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<i> >> </i><br>
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<i> >> It's the bit about defending Minolta that troubles me. This seems to</i><br>
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<i> >> suggest that if someone cooks their scanner using my driver and sues</i><br>
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....<br>
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<i> >c) Surely you can achieve complete aviodance of the issue by adding the</i><br>
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<i> >usual "this s/w is not fit for any purpose blah, blah"?</i><br>
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Shouldn't this part of the GPL (quoted at the top of each backend source<br>
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file) take care of this?<br>
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This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but<br>
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WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of<br>
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MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU<br>
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General Public License for more details.<br>
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-matt m.<br>
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<li> <b>Next message:</b> <a href="0140.html">Ekkard Gerlach: "Re: Mustek SE 12000 SP Plus"</a>
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<li> <b>Previous message:</b> <a href="0138.html">Michael Wein: "snapscan310, aha152x(05), de-pnp'd"</a>
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<li> <b>Maybe in reply to:</b> <a href="0134.html">David Rose: "Minolta releases SCSI specs!"</a>
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