On 10/5/13 9:52 AM, Richard Stallman wrote:
>       | ;; GNU Emacs 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.

Is this shouty bit really necessary? Has there been a case in recorded
history of a distributor or developer of a program being held liable
because he omitted similar language? The SQLite people haven't been
sued, after all, and they release their software in the public domain.