Monday, April 19, 2004
Product liability for linux
Interesting!
A new company said on Monday it can certify that the basic code in the Linux operating software is free of copyright infringement and it will offer standard product liability insurance to developers and users.
"After a rigorous six-month process of examining the individual software files in the Linux kernel and tracing their origins, OSRM [ Open Source Risk Management] found no copyright infringement in kernel versions 2.4 and 2.6," [lawyer and venture capitalist Daniel] Egger, OSRM's chairman, said in an interview. He was referring to the two most commonly used versions of the Linux operating system.
