ha, ha! Great question! Nothing that I know of.... -----Original Message----- From: David Derry [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, September 23, 2002 5:33 PM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: Re:[OT] Indemnification & copyright
And what are they doing to prevent 'accidental patent material inclusion' by in-house developers? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Malcolm Davis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I appreciate everybody's comments. > > This problem extends beyond Struts, but to all freeware, > opens source, etc, inside this particular organization. The > organization is a multi-billion dollar IT firm, (I will > leave it at that). > > 1. The contribution of the copyright or patent material > might be totally accidental in nature. > 2. Apache does not indemnify the software against copyright > or patent infringement. > > I like the 'receipt for cheap car stereo' analogy. > > Microsoft paid $100 Million over 'accidental patent material > ' regarding DoubleDisk technology. How accidental I don't > know. But this is the fear of these corporate lawyers. > > - 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]>
