Re: shielding from liability
Bruce writes:
> However there are negligence scenarios, for example a maintainer who
> accepts a patch without realizing that it contains a trojan-horse
> program. I want to shield our developers from individual liability in
> that sort of case.
Is every maintainer an employee or agent of SPI, then? Or is SPI going to
purchase liability insurance and name all the maintainers as beneficiaries?
I don't really think there is much risk, though. Where's the duty?
Has there ever actually been a negligence suit over free software?
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