From: Donald Brownlee <brownlee@acm.org>
To: presotto@plan9.bell-labs.com
Cc: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] The new ridiculous license
Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2003 14:56:56 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3EEF8EA8.8060904@acm.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <42999790ecb672f64d9fe046cb284a9d@plan9.bell-labs.com>
presotto@plan9.bell-labs.com wrote:
> On Tue Jun 17 14:15:16 EDT 2003, brownlee@acm.org wrote:
>
>>To avoid having to indemnify contributors, couldn't
>>a distributor offer a license which disclaims as
>>much as possible AND requires a distributee
>>to accept the Lucent license?
>
>
> The distributor indemnifies against the consequences of his actions.
> The distributor is not indemnifying the contributors against the results
> of their actions (unless of course he misrepresents their claims when
> distributing).
>
>
>>To distribute and have to indemnify the contributors could be risky.
>
>
> If a contributor could be sued for something stupid that a distributor
> did, wouldln't it be risky to contribute?
>
Yes.
A distributor might also be a contributor and have the distributee
accept the Lucent license. It seems that that would push all the
risk, if any, onto the end-user.
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2003-06-17 21:56 ` Donald Brownlee [this message]
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2003-06-19 18:19 ` David Presotto
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2003-06-19 18:50 ` Dan Cross
2003-06-19 18:55 ` boyd, rounin
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2003-06-19 13:54 ` David Presotto
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2003-06-23 15:22 ` rog
2003-06-20 8:20 ` John Murdie
2003-06-20 15:31 ` splite
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2003-06-19 17:51 ` David Presotto
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2003-06-20 5:01 ` Lucio De Re
2003-06-18 9:34 Markus Friedl
2003-06-18 14:45 ` Dan Cross
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2003-06-18 15:41 ` Markus Friedl
2003-06-18 16:32 ` northern snowfall
2003-06-18 17:12 ` Charles Forsyth
2003-06-18 16:22 ` Dan Cross
2003-06-18 17:09 ` Charles Forsyth
2003-06-20 7:52 ` Markus Friedl
2003-06-18 18:40 ` boyd, rounin
2003-06-18 20:25 ` ron minnich
2003-06-18 21:01 ` rob pike, esq.
2003-06-18 21:04 ` Jack Johnson
2003-06-18 21:02 ` boyd, rounin
2003-06-17 18:45 presotto
2003-06-17 18:18 David Presotto
2003-06-17 18:01 David Presotto
2003-06-18 2:55 ` Andrey S. Kukhar
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2003-06-17 17:33 ` Theo de Raadt
2003-06-17 17:09 David Presotto
2003-06-17 16:52 Theo de Raadt
2003-06-17 17:10 ` Dan Cross
2003-06-17 18:26 ` boyd, rounin
2003-06-18 8:58 ` ozan s yigit
2003-06-18 14:52 ` Dan Cross
2003-07-03 9:41 ` Wesley Parish
2003-07-03 17:29 ` D. Brownlee
2003-06-17 16:38 Russ Cox, rsc
2003-06-17 17:13 ` David Presotto
2003-06-17 17:50 ` Damian Gerow
2003-06-17 17:57 ` Russ Cox, rsc
2003-06-17 18:07 ` Damian Gerow
2003-06-17 16:04 Theo de Raadt
2003-06-17 17:02 ` C H Forsyth
2003-06-17 18:15 ` Charles Forsyth
2003-06-17 18:38 ` Tom Glinos
2003-06-17 17:46 ` Russ Cox, rsc
2003-06-17 21:27 ` Tom Glinos
2003-06-17 18:13 ` Donald Brownlee
2003-06-17 20:39 ` northern snowfall
2003-06-17 21:19 ` northern snowfall
2003-06-18 10:11 ` matt
2003-06-17 10:28 Theo de Raadt
2003-06-17 20:49 ` boyd, rounin
2003-06-17 21:01 ` David Presotto
2003-06-17 21:26 ` Jack Johnson
2003-06-17 21:28 ` Dan Cross
2003-06-20 12:31 ` Ralph Corderoy
2003-06-20 12:57 ` matt
2003-06-23 8:56 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2003-06-23 9:02 ` Anthony Mandic
2003-06-23 14:45 ` Jack Johnson
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