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Probably: "We used that code, and it harmed us in some way (e.g. we had to give someone money for something). You wrote that code. It is your fault. You have to

• emilfihlman 8y ago
  Surely such a claim would be thrown out in court and then all cases such after would be dismissed with prejudice, meaning the judicial example would already exist. Ie. you have an old phone that seems to work but choose to just give it away because why not, then someone loses important info when using the phone because it's old you are not liable for loss of that data. Any intentional backdoors or on purpose data destruction are are not covered by licenses anyways since you are acting in bad faith when doing those.
  • Sujan 8y ago
    Here I would say that creating something new is different than selling or giving away something existing that someone else created. > Surely such a claim would be thrown out in court and then all cases such after would be dismissed with prejudice, meaning the judicial example would already exist. Afaik not all courts all over the world work that way, besides of course there being hundreds of courts with different rules that all would have to go through that at least once for a creator to be able to rely on that.
• thaumaturgy 8y ago
  Several minutes' searching failed to find a single real-world example of this happening with open source software specifically, and I don't recall hearing about any such case either. All of the liabilities I found for open source software involved intellectual property cases. Are you aware of any cases where this has actually happened? Because, if not, it sounds more like the standard boilerplate disclaimer that lawyers tell you to include just in case anyone ever does try such a thing, rather than a protection against a thing that has actually happened.
  • Sujan 8y ago
    I am not aware of any examples. I was purely speculating what a company trying to sue someone might "think" (or use as justification).