[long] Re: Legal traps in open source

[Simon Fowler]

On Thu, Oct 31, 2002 at 02:31:35AM +1100, Damien Elmes wrote:
> 
> > I'm quite happy to release my software given rules along the lines
> > of those above. I'd probably be happy to sell software, too. I don't
> > expect to be sued unless I've made some serious mistake, and if I
> > did, then I'd probably deserve to be sued. 
> 
> What constitutes a "serious mistake" in computer software? How do you
> demarcate what is "gross" negligence or not? Is the use of gets() in this era
> of buffer overflows gross negligence?
> 
That's a good question. I think the normal standard is "what the
standard industry practise is", though that's not really much use in
this case ;-)

I'm actually talking to a law student I know about this right now .
. .

Simon

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