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Re:HipChat security notice by geofft on Monday April 24, 2017 @05:50PM (#14188670)
If it's free software? Yes, absolutely. To do otherwise is a chilling effect against hobbyist free-software authors in favor of large companies that have the ability to take on that liability. I, as an individual, want to be able to write code in my free time, put it on GitHub, and let it get popular without worrying that maybe it has a bug in it. If people want to start holding me responsible for it, I'm just not going to release it. Maybe you can pay my employer for a commercial license if we think that the cost of auditing it and taking on the liability for bugs is commercially reasonable, but it's also unlikely my employer will be interested.
Re:HipChat security notice by lolsal on Monday April 24, 2017 @06:04PM (#14188807)
I am absolutely not advocating that the library author be held liable.