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I guess companies that run mirrors, for example distro repos, would fall under that definition too. What about donations and not-for-profit orgs?

• bee_rider 4y ago
  This is a good question. I’d hope that just hosting a free repo wouldn’t confer responsibility. Another thing I’m wondering about is academic code. Hypothetically the code I wrote for my thesis is available online and I was paid to write it, I guess, or at least it is part of the research I was given a stipend to do. (Happily, it has nothing to do with security!). Nobody is making any money off it. Hypothetically it could be seen as something that is there to add (very marginal!) value to my resume or to the university by showing off research chops… I dunno. If we had a law like this in the US, I wonder if it could stay up. I guess universities would end up with an additional CYA administrative step before posting code, and a big disclaimer in all their licenses.