On 03/09/2014 10:01 AM, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
I wonder if your employer could have put a clause in the contract that
the purchaser must comply with the licences of the supplied software?
I definitely put these in any engineering contract. And "we are not your
legal counsel and your legal counsel is the only one who can give you
legal advice". On copyright engagements I generally report to the
counsel, on engineering issues I usually don't.
As it stands, your employer is potentially a co-defendant in an
infringement case, or has pass-on liability if the customer loses such a
case, and can certainly be subpoenaed and put on the stand (along with
you) to testify about their conduct.
From this distance I can't tell what your employer put in their
contract. But a lot of engineering organizations do not have sufficient
knowledge or counsel to protect themselves.
Lawyers who don't deal with Open Source don't always have the necessary
clues. But they can get them.
Thanks
Bruce
