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Originally Posted by WernerB
What is the seemingly secret mechanism that indemnifies the REAPER community against such mishap?
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The fact that it hasn't happened yet, and therefore nobody has had to care. That said, the open-source community at large
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So I wonder what would happen if there was a claim that their programs have harmed somebody else’s IT assets/rights?
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Scripts are typically provided for free, with no obligations for support or guarantees of correctness/safety. Users have to specifically choose to install and use them.
So... I doubt there would be much of a legal case in the event of supposed damage unless you could show outright malicious intent (i.e. a script that intentionally tries to remove C:\Windows\System32).
As far as removing how much extra text you have to write, you could just specify in a comment that your code is released under the MIT or Gnu license with a URL to read it - no need to include the whole text these days.