If the aim is to make Freenet accessible to a mass audience, then it's well
within everyone's interest for the legalities to be sorted out, so that an
idiot-proof installation is possible.
If legal expertise is lacking, this might be a justifiable use of some of
the Freenet slush fund.
The more active Freenet nodes in existence, the safer Freenet as a network
becomes, and the more content is available for all, and the more the dream
of a truly free internet becomes a reality.
But I echo others' sentiments in saying you've done a good thing, Bad.
Legal vulnerability does need to be kept in check.
There's too many powerful individuals and organisations who'd love to see
Freenet developers bleeding from their asses holidaying in Club Fed (or Her
Majesty's Hotel, etc).
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tavin Cole" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2001 5:52 PM
Subject: Re: [freenet-chat] Re: [freenet-devl] JRE License
> On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 10:27:30PM -0700, Mr. Bad wrote:
> > >>>>> "TC" == Tavin Cole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> > TC> However, can we not simply make it a part of _our_ license
> > TC> agreement that they agree to indemnify us w/r/to problems
> > TC> resulting from the JRE as well as Fred?
> >
> > That's an interesting point, but it seems like it requires more legal
> > brainpower than I have.
> >
> > Hey, how did this thread get over to chat? Damn.
>
> Ok, I'm cc'ing this to devl then.
>
> So we've had lawyer types post on the list before, surely one of them
> can help. However why wouldn't be as simple as taking either the Sun
> or GPL indemnity clause almost word for word and just substituting
> nouns? We get 2 indemnity clauses, one for the JRE and one for Fred.
>
> --
>
> # tavin cole
> #
> # "The process of scientific discovery is, in effect,
> # a continual flight from wonder."
> # - Albert Einstein
>
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