Development of Creative Commons licenses

[Evan Prodromou <evan AT wikitravel.org>]

>>>>> "ML" == Mike Linksvayer <ml AT creativecommons.org> writes:

    ML> Question: AFAIK none of the major open source licenses contain
    ML> a CC1.0-like warranty clause.  Is this a problem?

Are you _joking_? Absolutely.

SCO has been able to sow fear, uncertainty, and doubt amongst the
technical press and IT departments with claims of copyright violations
in Linux (under the GNU General Public License). They've got a plan to
extract license fees from Linux users.

Linux has code in it from hundreds of contributors. How is an end-user
supposed to make sure that all that code is copyright clean? Why
should each end-user have to do it?

HP and I believe now IBM offer indemnification to customers
for copyright violations in Linux... Can't recall, exactly.

More info here:

     http://sco.iwethey.org/

Karsten Self is smart.

~ESP

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