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by bell-cot 1539 days ago
How do you feel about FOSS, and the things that many FOSS licenses say about liability?

Would you feel better about the Bird T&C, if they had 2 separate options:

- 1.) The current "you can't sue us" deal.

- 2.) An otherwise-similar "you CAN sue us" deal. But at a far higher price, since the insurance they'd need for that deal would not come cheap, and close to zero people would pick that option...

1 comments

I think you could sue the FOSS project if the author knowingly and intentionally gave you malware under the pretense of normally functioning good faith software.

Otherwise the license is more of a reminder that you didn't pay for it and aren't entitled to bug fixes, features, support, compatibility, etc..