His employer is worried that one of the struts contributers could include some code that someone else has rights to and that as a user of struts his employer would be then be legally liable for such an infringement.
In this event the Apache licence would not really be relevant as the dodgy chunk of code involved wouldnt be Apaches to license in the first place. (ie: would mean as much as a handwritten certificate of authority from the guy down the pub who sold you a cheap car stereo) The question in this case is what happens to folk using struts in regards to their legal liabilty regarding any such dodgy code distributed with struts. I dont know the answer to this one but would be rather curious to know. Common sense would suggest that having used struts 'in good faith' we wouldnt be liable, but since this is a legal issue any conclusion reached by using common sense is almost certainly completely invalid... -----Original Message----- From: Galbreath, Mark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, September 23, 2002 19:27 To: 'Struts Users Mailing List' Subject: RE: Indemnification & copyright There is no liability issue as long as you abide by the license, which merely requires that credit is given to Apache for redistributed software containing ASF code. http://jakarta.apache.org/turbine/common/license.html Mark -----Original Message----- From: Malcolm Davis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, September 22, 2002 8:02 PM I am presently in a predicament on my present contract. I am not allowed to use STRUTS unless my employer can be indemnified from copyright or patent infringement. 1. Is there anyway my employer can be indemnified from copyright or patent infringement with Struts? 2. Is there a company that provides this service? 3. Is this really an issue with Struts? The liability extends from the use of intellectual property. A developer knowingly or unknowingly contributes a piece of software to the Open Source community that contains intellectual property. I then use that piece of open source software. Thanks for any comments, malcolm -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
