From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 12 02:54:29 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F0CC237B401 for ; Tue, 12 Aug 2003 02:54:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from puffin.mail.pas.earthlink.net (puffin.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.139]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F9B043F75 for ; Tue, 12 Aug 2003 02:54:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert2@mindspring.com) Received: from user-2ivfigt.dialup.mindspring.com ([165.247.202.29] helo=mindspring.com) by puffin.mail.pas.earthlink.net with asmtp (SSLv3:RC4-MD5:128) (Exim 3.33 #1) id 19mVrF-00059r-00; Tue, 12 Aug 2003 02:54:26 -0700 Message-ID: <3F38B911.402A9FEB@mindspring.com> Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2003 02:53:21 -0700 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Gary W. Swearingen" References: <4.3.2.7.2.20030808105028.018effd0@threespace.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-ELNK-Trace: b1a02af9316fbb217a47c185c03b154d40683398e744b8a4735f2c915d3b7a166903016558ff9605387f7b89c61deb1d350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c cc: FreeBSD Chat Subject: Re: Good news, Brett! X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2003 09:54:30 -0000 "Gary W. Swearingen" wrote: > No open-source license I'm aware of says the licensor is not liable > for IP issues or claims to indemnify anybody for anything. They > merely say that they software is being sold "as-is" and so won't be > changed at the licensees request and that the licensee must agree to > pay for any damages that the software causes. (I'm quite sure that > that damage does NOT refer to any IP violations, etc.) The eCOS license does. -- Terry