Hi Bruce, On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 10:24:21AM -0700, Bruce Perens wrote: > I researched copyright/patent liability insurance for a commercial > customer a while back. It can be had for 1.5 to 2.5 percent of the > insured amount per year. If you want $1 Million coverage you will be > paying $15,000 to $25,000 per year. > > But the member is not the insured party. The corporation is. I don't > think it works for the corporation to indemnify a member the way this > insurance might have helped a company indemnify a customer. This brings > us back to the same point. If we can establish rules by which the > developer is working on behalf of the corporation, they can:
Is it not possible to have the policy written to cover a defined other group of people besides the corporation itself, such as those who are official DDs (a very well-defined set)? Note I am not commenting right now on whether I think this would be worthwhile for Debian or for any of the other projects, but I don't see a priori why such a policy (admittedly somewhat atypical) couldn't be arranged if desired by SPI or a member project. Certainly Directors & Officers insurance is one kind of insurance that is purchased by a company for specific individuals, and I don't see what's unique about that other than a different risk profile that makes it a reasonably common purchase. - Jimmy Kaplowitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Spi-general mailing list [email protected] http://lists.spi-inc.org/listinfo/spi-general
