On Fri, May 19, 2006 at 10:59:33PM +0200, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: > > > (f) you agree to defend and indemnify Sun and its licensors from > > > and against any damages, costs, liabilities, settlement amounts > > > and/or expenses (including attorneys' fees) incurred in > > > connection with any claim, lawsuit or action by any third party > > > that arises or results from (i) the use or distribution of your > > > Operating System, or any part thereof, in any manner, or (ii) > > > your use or distribution of the Software in violation of the > > > terms of this Agreement or applicable law. > > > > I'm really not entirely sure what this clause is getting at, but it > > seems that the intention is that Debian needs to indemnify Sun for any > > litigation resulting by users of the package of Sun's JDK which Debian > > has distributed, even if Sun is grossly negligent.[2] > > I'm not an expert at all on indemnification, that's to the best of my > knowledge quite US-centric. Pass on this one.
So I assume that one of the other two who had a look at it know more about this and will share their insights later on. > ... > Speaking realistically, such a move of Sun would be spectacularly bad PR > for them esp. considering their statements about future Java licensing > efforts they have committed to. That's true. But why did they release this license and used no other wording? You essantially say, why worry about a license if it's bad PR too sue the licensees. I doubt it really works that way. After all you could, at some point somehow, get into a situation where Sun doesn't care about the PR effect. Michael -- Michael Meskes Email: Michael at Fam-Meskes dot De, Michael at Meskes dot (De|Com|Net|Org) ICQ: 179140304, AIM/Yahoo: michaelmeskes, Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Go SF 49ers! Go Rhein Fire! Use Debian GNU/Linux! Use PostgreSQL! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]