From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 23 13:27:17 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id NAA18130 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 23 Jan 1996 13:27:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from rocky.sri.MT.net (rocky.sri.MT.net [204.182.243.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA18099 for ; Tue, 23 Jan 1996 13:26:53 -0800 (PST) Received: (from nate@localhost) by rocky.sri.MT.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) id OAA26287; Tue, 23 Jan 1996 14:29:17 -0700 Date: Tue, 23 Jan 1996 14:29:17 -0700 From: Nate Williams Message-Id: <199601232129.OAA26287@rocky.sri.MT.net> To: Stephen Mathezer Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Licensing and liability issues for commercial development In-Reply-To: References: Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > What if we write software to back up a FreeBSD machine and it gets lost > due to a FreeBSD bug? How can we cover our butts in this situation? Explicitly deny any responsibilities for data loss. See the license on similar products. > The Gcc license stipulates that for software compiled with gcc, object > must be made freely available. We don't really want to do that. Plus, > what happens if gcc tightens the license further? Reread the license. It says *no* such thing. You're safe from having to provide object code, but given that you don't understand the license, I'd be talking to a lawyer. This is *necessary* if you are worried about these kinds of issues, and the poor folks on this list are only armchair lawyers. :) Nate