On 6/10/14 6:45 PM, Gervase Markham wrote:
* As a volunteer, you cannot bind Mozilla to any agreements or sign any
agreements on behalf of Mozilla, but you can introduce Mozilla to
different ideas, processes and ways of doing things;
-- OK... but what happens if I do this anyway? Are we actually going to
sue? Have there been any cases of this actually happening?
I think there have been cases that were at least close, or where there
was the intent. I've seen contributors trying to form local legal
entites to get government funds, for example. I'm not aware that we had
folks actually getting to the point of signing stuff, though.
Aside from trademark violations, I don't think we have a legal angle
here, but the folks that sign deals with volunteers misrepresenting
themselves could totally sue those individuals, I guess.
The point of these and other points is that folks might get sued if they
do non-smart things. And we'd not make an attempt to save them.
Axel
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