Re: [OS:N:] Another question about Licenses
Alexandre Oliva <[email protected]>
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| Organization | GCC Team, Red Hat |
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On Nov 8, 2003, "Anthony Saffer" <[email protected]> wrote: > I can see your point. I suppose my biggest concern is that of the problems > that might arise from our customers buying the software from us, having it > modified by someone else, then expecting us to support those modifications. Signed RPMS and SRPMS could help minimize this effect. > Additionally, I've recently seen a niche company offer it's code as open > source under the GPL and then got sued because "their software" broke the > clients computer. Being alive is enough to bring you risks of getting sued :-) I hope a court would trivially see that they were not running your software, but rather something else. Just like removing a label can void the warranty of a product, tweaking the software may void any responsibility the original developer had on it. -- Alexandre Oliva Enjoy Guarana', see http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Red Hat GCC Developer aoliva@{redhat.com, gcc.gnu.org} CS PhD student at IC-Unicamp oliva@{lsd.ic.unicamp.br, gnu.org} Free Software Evangelist Professional serial bug killer _______________________________________________ Subscription and Archive: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/open-source-now-list/ - For K12OS technical help join K12OSN: <https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn>