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Why should I be held accountable if you just run some code you found on GitHub? Am I reliable when I sell hammers and you bash your face in? /e: let me clarify
by RamblingCTO 3y ago
Why should I be held accountable if you just run some code you found on GitHub? Am I reliable when I sell hammers and you bash your face in?
/e: let me clarify, I agree with the three comments under me. You, the commercial entity using my code, is accountable. I am not liable if you as a private person run my shitty code. I was thinking of private persons and being on the hook for my GitHub repos.
- sevagh 3y agoNo no, you should be held accountable if _you_ run some code you found on GitHub in your product that I pay you for.
- withinboredom 3y agoI don't think it's like that.
- CuriousCosmic 3y agoI think you might be misreading it. The person who ships the product commercially is liable. If you sell them your code, you'd be liable but if they just use your open source code, they are liable for any potential issues in their program caused by your code (instead of you being liable). Basically they can't just brush off responsibility for using FOSS code by saying "well I didn't write it, it's not my fault" unless you as the FOSS developer are selling them a support contract for any potential issues in your code.