On Thursday 24 December 2009 21.43:44 Ask Bjørn Hansen wrote: > On Dec 24, 2009, at 11:40, Nicholas J Humfrey wrote: > > Is there a disclaimer for pool.ntp.org anywhere? > > No, but if anyone have lawyer resources to help make an explicit one that > wouldn't be a bad idea.
Since it's a very international project we'd have two choices: either go with a full battery of lawyers to cover all (important) legislations (continental european law is a completely different beast from US/UK style law, and I guess India is big enough so that you'd want it covered. I wouldn't care about China since it's a one party dictatorship anyway...) Or, and I guess we'd be safe enough there, we go without lawyers and just say what we think. So, a first try: +++ DISCLAIMER: The timeservers operating as part of the pool.ntp.org project * do not make any claims as to the accuracy of the time data they offer. * do not make any promise regarding continued service. Both individual timeservers or the pool.ntp.org project as a whole may go out of service without prior notice. +++ Then add a sentence that despite this, we *try* to offer good quality time data. Perhaps even add stats about timeserver churn (my IP address has been in the pool since the beginning and I don't think there's been more than a few hours out time over all this time :-) Obviously, if anybody still doubts if he might still be liable in some case he shouldn't operate a time server (... and probably lock himself in a sub- basement somewhere. There are always lunatics who find they can sue somebody else about anything at all... ) cheers -- vbi
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