I don’t think I’m suggesting to not disclaim liability. I’m suggesting to claim that I didn’t hide anything to make a use break on purpose. It does add liability, but this is liability that is completely in the author’s control unlike regular bugs or misuse that disclaiming other liability still protects against.
I'm not a lawyer so I'm guessing what liability means. In a collaborative project I would think the license contributors sign would certify that intentional mistakes will not be added and that the individual is liable if their contribution includes such a thing. If the project is found liable for the results of a hidden practical joke then the liability funnels to the individual and the collaborators removes their contributions. Go uses other open source projects so adjusting the license this way would be a very large task, but I’d like top quality free software tools please. Matt On Monday, May 14, 2018 at 8:54:35 PM UTC-5, Krzysztof Kowalczyk wrote: > > On Monday, May 14, 2018 at 7:25:03 AM UTC-7, matthe...@gmail.com wrote: >> >> But you aren't going to get much in the way of guarantees when you >>> receive and use something for free. >> >> >> My work is not free, I want to contribute time back. >> >>> >>> > It's unclear if you understand the implications. > > If you were to contribute to a project that uses a license that doesn't > disclaim liability, your contributions would also fall under the same terms. > > In other words, if someone decided that they were harmed by your code > (e.g. because you made a coding mistake which corrupted their files) they > could sue you. Since you didn't disclaim liability, they could win and you > would have to pay them money. > > For code that you gave them for free. > > I'm guessing you wouldn't want to expose yourself to such liability. > Neither does anyone else. > > That's why every open source license includes a disclaimer of liability. > > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
