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Product liability is coming for software. Warranty disclaimers in licenses will be rendered ineffective by the end of 2026 at the latest.
by gmueckl 1y ago
Product liability is coming for software. Warranty disclaimers in licenses will be rendered ineffective by the end of 2026 at the latest.
- tcoff91 1y agoSource? An open source library is not necessarily a ‘product’ at all.
- LtWorf 1y agoNo source because it's not real. There's talk about final products and making the companies selling them responsible. But open source developers are not responsible.
- respondo2134 1y agothis seems highly unlikely. Almost all of the software we're discussing in this context has little or no resources behind it. No lawyers are going to sue an OSS developer because there's no payday.
- LtWorf 1y agoonly if you pay for it… otherwise you are liable but don't have anyone else to blame.