Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 22:45:47 -0400 From: "Thomas M. Sommers" <tms2@mail.ptd.net> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> Cc: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>, Mark Ovens <marko@FreeBSD.ORG>, Mike Doyle <relyod@co-operation-ireland.ie>, freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: RWS Message-ID: <39C9765B.F6E6F84F@mail.ptd.net> References: <200009190507.WAA12169@usr02.primenet.com>
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Terry Lambert wrote: > > Legally, there is an argument that, on a purely constructionist > basis, one can not enforce a "hold harmless" clause (clause 2 of > the two clause license) without also enforcing a claim credit > clause. The argument is based on the idea of someone taking your > work, adding buggy code to it, selling it, and then causing harm > as a result. The original author still suffers the percentage > of liabilty relative to their proportion of the authorship, even > if their code was not, itself, buggy; this as a result of their > contributory negligence in making the source code available. It seems to me that if making source code available is negligence, making source code available and demanding credit for it is still negligence. Hold harmless clauses do not require publication to be effective. They also do not affect either party's liability to third parties. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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