Re: [IAEP] Activity Authentication - Questions about legal liability

2009-02-08 Thread Ivan Krstić
On Feb 8, 2009, at 1:04 PM, Luke Faraone wrote: > It may pose as a legal liability for Sugar Labs, however, as Ivan > pointed out: Chains of trust represent also a chain of legal > liability, and whoever is on top is painting a giant "sue me" target > on their back if anyone below screws up,

Re: [IAEP] Activity Authentication - Questions about legal liability

2009-02-08 Thread David Farning
Luke, Take a look at how mozilla handles content at addons.sugarlabs.org. They have pretty sane way of handling the issue. The eclipse.org ecosystem has a more ridged yet fairly usable control mechanism. David On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 12:04 PM, Luke Faraone wrote: > Walter, (cc'd to list) > > The

[IAEP] Activity Authentication - Questions about legal liability

2009-02-08 Thread Luke Faraone
Walter, (cc'd to list) There was a recent discussion on #sugar about how to handle authentication and signatures for library and activity bundles. One of the models we considered which is most attractive from a ease-of-use and technical standpoint is that of a centralized "Sugar Labs signing autho