[yifanl]

It's not criminal, but you're entitled to a full refund of Thunderbird in the event it happens.

[CamperBob2]

This line of reasoning will eventually cause it to be treated as criminal, or at least as a civil tort. Then we will all be worse off.

[account42]

Neither lack of payment nor the liability disclaimers in the license absolve the developers of liability for malicious actions or gross negligence.

[saurik]

Just because something is free certainly does not make it ethical, and it doesn't even mean it should be legal.

[yifanl]

No, but they're rather limited in ways to reimburse you or offer "justice". Putting the Thunderbird team in jail doesn't help you out.

Hell, what if the offending commit was 2 decades ago by someone who's cut off all contact regarding code since?

[redeeman]

nobody should fault the person who have coded the bug, unless someone can prove it was done on purpose. What I am suggesting is that the project as a whole has the responsibility to not just sit on data losing bugs for 17 years without warning users.

the fact that they choose not to, makes me perfectly OK with them being held criminally liable.

[redeeman]

an option I will be making use of now.

And I know its not criminal, im saying it SHOULD be criminal not to warn people about this. its more than a decade