patents & liability

[Rik van Riel <riel@nl.linux.org>]

Hi,

I was wondering how much liability for the infringements
of patents (accidental, by contributors) the maintainer
of a copylefted software package could have...

Rik -- If a Microsoft product fails, who do you sue?
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