Lloyd's of London may soon be offering insurance, available through
brokers, to protect users of "open-source software against claims of
intellectual property infringement." The insurance will cover the
open-source LAMP stack: the Linux operating system, Apache Web server,
MySQL database and Perl, PHP and Python scripting languages. Other
products may be added at a later date. While some vendors offer
indemnification for their own Linux distributions, this insurance will
be vendor-neutral, though it might not cover distribution-specific
packages.
http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/software/print.htm?TYPE=story&AT=39207063-2000061733t-10000002c
http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/Article.aspx?liArticleID=211374&PrinterFriendly=true
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