Xah's Edu Corner: Responsible Software Licensing

[Martin P. Hellwig]

Ulrich Hobelmann wrote:
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> 
> The piece that a European programmer can never withdraw responsibility 
> could be a big problem to open-source software, though.  I'm not sure 
> I'd want to freely publish anything that could result in liability for me.
> 
Not that big of a problem, in EU a user is still primary liable for his 
own action unless he's deliberately been mislead without any possibility 
to know that, think in terms of trojans and viruses.
So no suing over spilling hot coffee here unless the container it's 
carried in is faulty

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