Software Liabilities and Free Software

Posted by Sander_Marechal on Jul 29, 2008 6:04 PM EDT
Schneier on Security; By Bruce Schneier
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Whenever I write about software liabilities, many people ask about free and open source software. If people who write free software, like PasswordSafe, are forced to assume liabilities, they will simply not be able to and free software would disappear. Don't worry, they won't be. The key to understanding this is that this sort of contractual liability is part of a contract, and with free software -- or free anything -- there's no contract.

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