Re: [Plib-users] Damage to sound hardware

[Steve B. <sjb...@ai...>]

Christian Mayer wrote:

> we'd just have to bewareabout the USA as there's a microwave
> producer guilty for the death of an hamster that a customer put into it
> to dry it after a bath (unless the puts a warning in the manual...).

Actually, I think that's an urban legend - and the original story
was that it was a miniature poodle (a DOG not a hamster) and the
cause of the court case was that in the long list of foods and
cooking times printed on the door of the oven was "Dogs...3 minutes"
(meaning HotDogs - not Canines).  However, even with that modification,
I don't think this is a true story.

I should point out that in using PLIB (which is an LGPL'ed library),
you are accepting the following clauses from the LGPL:

  Quoting from 'LICENSE' in the PLIB root directory:

                            NO WARRANTY
 
  15. BECAUSE THE LIBRARY IS LICENSED FREE OF CHARGE, THERE IS NO
  WARRANTY FOR THE LIBRARY, TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW.
  EXCEPT WHEN OTHERWISE STATED IN WRITING THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND/OR
  OTHER PARTIES PROVIDE THE LIBRARY "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY
  KIND, EITHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE
  IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
  PURPOSE.  THE ENTIRE RISK AS TO THE QUALITY AND PERFORMANCE OF THE
  LIBRARY IS WITH YOU.  SHOULD THE LIBRARY PROVE DEFECTIVE, YOU ASSUME
  THE COST OF ALL NECESSARY SERVICING, REPAIR OR CORRECTION.
 
  16. IN NO EVENT UNLESS REQUIRED BY APPLICABLE LAW OR AGREED TO IN
  WRITING WILL ANY COPYRIGHT HOLDER, OR ANY OTHER PARTY WHO MAY MODIFY
  AND/OR REDISTRIBUTE THE LIBRARY AS PERMITTED ABOVE, BE LIABLE TO YOU
  FOR DAMAGES, INCLUDING ANY GENERAL, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL OR
  CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF THE USE OR INABILITY TO USE THE
  LIBRARY (INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO LOSS OF DATA OR DATA BEING
  RENDERED INACCURATE OR LOSSES SUSTAINED BY YOU OR THIRD PARTIES OR A
  FAILURE OF THE LIBRARY TO OPERATE WITH ANY OTHER SOFTWARE), EVEN IF
  SUCH HOLDER OR OTHER PARTY HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH
  DAMAGES.

So, if an off-by-one error in the audio library causes a 'click' and
that causes your speakers to explode thereby setting fire to your
house - resulting in a gas pipeline blow-back that takes out your local
plutonium storage facility - which then leaves a poisonous radioactive
cloud encircling the globe - leaving only three humans left alive (You,
me and a lawyer), it'll be YOU that gets sued...not me.

Hmmm - I'd better just go back and look at that replay routine *one*
more time!   :-)

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