[TYPO3-commerce] legal considerations about publishing an extension to TER

[Thibaut van de Mortel]

Hi list,
I'm currently developping an extension that is a payment method for 
Commerce. If everything goes fine, I wish to publish it to TER, but I 
was wondering about the responsibility that an author has over the 
extension he publishes.

Let's say that I've finished my extension and it has been accepted on 
TER (I don't really know yet the process to approved on TER). Let's even 
say that I'm so proud of my brand new extension that I say it is version 
1.0 and it is stable.

Now let's also say this :
1) somebody decides to use my extension.
2) there is actually a security breach and some clever hacker found it, 
making the merchant lose money.

In that "worst case scenario" (I always like to think about any worst 
case scenario), can I be legally attacked by the victim because my 
extension was not secure enough? If yes, can I still be legally attacked 
even if I include in the code a big disclaimer saying basically "USE 
THIS AT YOUR OWN RISKS"?

I want to share, but I don't want to be attacked if my extension appears 
to be hackable.

I secretly guess that there is no risk, otherwise nobody would dare to 
publish any free extension like hmmm... an e-commerce system for example  :)

Any lawyer in the list?


Regards,
Thibaut