On Wed, Jun 07, 2006 at 09:41:27AM +0100, MJ Ray wrote: > Anthony Towns <aj@azure.humbug.org.au> > > > Is there even any dispute that the DLJ indemnity seeks to overturn all > > > the "no warranty" statements in debian and leave the licensee liable > > > for the effects of everything in our operating system? > > > > If you're actually claiming that's what it does, then I guess there is. > > Cool. Where is this effect of sections 2(f)(i) and 14 disputed? I've > seen repeated claims that we're not liable for Sun's changes and downstream > changes, but not upstream changes of parts of the Operating System.
Really, how is that any relevant? Can you come up with a real-life scenario (as in, something which actually occurred) where a change to, say, glibc or something similar made some other application break in such a way that it would no longer behave as documented? I could imagine a situation where compiler bugs would make an application misbehave, but that doesn't apply to a binary-only non-free piece of code. I could imagine a situation where library ABI changes break the application in such a way that it would no longer even _start_, but I can hardly imagine that people would want to sue anyone over that -- unless suddenly java would no longer start while they're running stable, but I don't foresee that ABI changes happening in stable (do you?) I could imagine a bug in glibc having an effect on every application which tries to make use of the particular buggy library call. What I cannot imagine is a case where an upstream change would result in only Sun's Java to break rather than a whole bunch of applications (so they would most likely be noticed before the release), and/or to do so on Debian only, rather than on every Linux distribution out there; and it would seem that for any case where the effects are much wider than just Debian, it can reasonably be argued that the problems are, not under our control, which would free us from the burden of having to idemnify Sun. If I'm misguided, I'd be happy to be enlightened. But I don't think I am. -- Fun will now commence -- Seven Of Nine, "Ashes to Ashes", stardate 53679.4 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
