Comment Re: Doesn't sound workable (Score 1) 102
From what I can tell, software licenses even for commercial software seem to be effective at releasing the authors from liability in most cases. In the case where the code is provided as experimental, no contract was signed, and no money exchanged hands, where is the potential liability?
This will cease to be true in the (near) future, especially for commercial and large FOSS projects.
Uh, your link says exactly what I said.
I've added emphasis to show I wrote that the opposite will be true. There will be liability, even for open source, even if no contract was signed.
And although I expect individual FOSS developers to be only as liable as employees of a corporation, the authors (both corporations and FOSS projects) most certainly will not be off the hook!