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If they were accidentally infringing licenses, this scattershot approach may result in snitching on their own company. That's how a log4j security audit become
by scj 5y ago
If they were accidentally infringing licenses, this scattershot approach may result in snitching on their own company.
That's how a log4j security audit becomes an Oracle licensing debacle.
- 0x500x79 5y agoYep, it can/will happen. My assumption is that this is related to Curl, which has a pretty well documented license. Responding to emails like this with an automated email pointing to the license at https://github.com/curl/curl/blob/master/COPYING https://github.com/curl/curl/blob/master/COPYING seems like an obvious thing to have setup. Namely: THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT OF THIRD PARTY RIGHTS. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.