Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Re: Liability protection project - call for participants

2007-05-15 Thread Dave Patton
Frank Warmerdam wrote: For now I'm mainly watching with interest - especially I'm looking forward to seeing what some real lawyers at the Software Freedom Law Center have to say about the topic. Maybe "some real lawyers" could do some presentations at FOSS4G2007? -- Dave Patton Canadian Coor

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Re: Liability protection project - call for participants

2007-05-15 Thread Frank Warmerdam
Allan Doyle wrote: Thanks for bringing this to our attention, it's a topic that has renewed relevance. From the sound of it, OSGeo itself has too many eggs in its basket to risk having them broken by providing a shield. Allan, Well, this is a concern at least. I still think OSGeo *might*

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Re: Liability protection project - call for participants

2007-05-15 Thread Sean Gillies
Yes. Thanks, Frank. I love the idea of Eben Moglen defending my software. Sean Allan Doyle wrote: Thanks for bringing this to our attention, it's a topic that has renewed relevance. From the sound of it, OSGeo itself has too many eggs in its basket to risk having them broken by providing a

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Re: Liability protection project - call for participants

2007-05-15 Thread Allan Doyle
Thanks for bringing this to our attention, it's a topic that has renewed relevance. From the sound of it, OSGeo itself has too many eggs in its basket to risk having them broken by providing a shield. But that ought not stop geo-foss developers from either joining up with Bruce's idea or

[OSGeo-Discuss] Re: Liability protection project - call for participants

2007-05-14 Thread Frank Warmerdam
Folks, Bruce Perens is a luminary in the open source world, and known as a founder of the Debian project, and author of the Free Software Definition - a foundational document for the concept of OSI approved open source licenses. Bruce Perens wrote: > A long time ago we planned for SPI to protec