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I've always used BSD 2-Clause aka the FreeBSD License, as it is (1) GPL compatible for those that care about such things (I don't) and (2) has a simple non-liability clause, which is really important as I once learned.

A few years back, the org I worked for at the time was dealing with a major issue where legal was doing an audit of our software licensing. At first, the legal team was trying to get in contact with the respective authors of our open-source licensed software, and ask them to issue us a special license removing the liability clauses, making the author legally liable if their software caused any major issues in our environment. As I'm sure you can imagine, they had a 0% success rate with that. The "reasoning" behind this was that Microsoft and Adobe offer liability and support, so everything else should.

After a few months of no progress, the lawyers gave up with the special license crap. For a while, we were afraid that we'd lose any access to open-source licensed software, but in the end legal gave up on OSS and focused on rich companies that would actually sign liability modifications. Regardless, it was a stressful ~6 months for IT/Dev.


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nixers community git - by robotchaos - 13-07-2017, 08:19 PM
RE: nixers community git - by acg - 13-07-2017, 08:56 PM
RE: nixers community git - by venam - 14-07-2017, 01:22 AM
RE: nixers community git - by robotchaos - 16-07-2017, 04:41 PM
RE: nixers community git - by jkl - 16-07-2017, 07:18 PM
RE: nixers community git - by robotchaos - 17-07-2017, 12:03 AM
RE: nixers community git - by josuah - 17-07-2017, 02:49 AM
RE: nixers community git - by xero - 17-07-2017, 04:25 PM
RE: nixers community git - by evbo - 17-07-2017, 04:27 PM
RE: nixers community git - by robotchaos - 18-07-2017, 12:38 AM
RE: nixers community git - by jkl - 18-07-2017, 03:59 AM
RE: nixers community git - by z3bra - 18-07-2017, 10:28 AM
RE: nixers community git - by venam - 18-07-2017, 10:50 AM
RE: nixers community git - by r4ndom - 18-07-2017, 11:52 AM
RE: nixers community git - by robotchaos - 18-07-2017, 01:56 PM
RE: nixers community git - by jkl - 18-07-2017, 05:12 PM
RE: nixers community git - by z3bra - 18-07-2017, 08:35 PM
RE: nixers community git - by Tmplt - 18-07-2017, 11:26 PM
RE: nixers community git - by venam - 19-07-2017, 01:02 AM
RE: nixers community git - by z3bra - 19-07-2017, 03:31 AM
RE: nixers community git - by z3bra - 19-07-2017, 03:43 AM
RE: nixers community git - by venam - 19-07-2017, 04:03 AM
RE: nixers community git - by z3bra - 19-07-2017, 05:19 AM
RE: nixers community git - by jkl - 19-07-2017, 06:04 AM
RE: nixers community git - by z3bra - 19-07-2017, 09:58 AM
RE: nixers community git - by jkl - 19-07-2017, 10:44 AM
RE: nixers community git - by xero - 19-07-2017, 03:40 PM
RE: nixers community git - by atbd - 20-07-2017, 03:26 AM
RE: nixers community git - by Tmplt - 21-07-2017, 03:35 PM
RE: nixers community git - by pranomostro - 21-07-2017, 03:51 PM
RE: nixers community git - by Tmplt - 21-07-2017, 04:39 PM
RE: nixers community git - by z3bra - 21-07-2017, 04:41 PM
RE: nixers community git - by Tmplt - 21-07-2017, 04:44 PM
RE: nixers community git - by acg - 21-07-2017, 04:47 PM
RE: nixers community git - by z3bra - 21-07-2017, 05:02 PM
RE: nixers community git - by z3bra - 25-07-2017, 07:57 AM
RE: nixers community git - by jkl - 25-07-2017, 08:35 AM
RE: nixers community git - by z3bra - 25-07-2017, 08:39 AM
RE: nixers community git - by jkl - 25-07-2017, 08:48 AM
RE: nixers community git - by z3bra - 25-07-2017, 10:02 AM
RE: nixers community git - by jkl - 25-07-2017, 10:21 AM
RE: nixers community git - by z3bra - 25-07-2017, 12:08 PM
RE: nixers community git - by jkl - 25-07-2017, 12:11 PM
RE: nixers community git - by pizzaroll1 - 25-07-2017, 12:46 PM
RE: nixers community git - by z3bra - 25-07-2017, 02:03 PM
RE: nixers community git - by evbo - 25-07-2017, 03:51 PM
RE: nixers community git - by acg - 25-07-2017, 03:51 PM
RE: nixers community git - by jkl - 25-07-2017, 06:01 PM
RE: nixers community git - by pizzaroll1 - 25-07-2017, 07:30 PM
RE: nixers community git - by z3bra - 26-07-2017, 07:25 AM
RE: nixers community git - by z3bra - 26-07-2017, 11:16 AM
RE: nixers community git - by robotchaos - 28-07-2017, 12:59 PM
RE: nixers community git - by z3bra - 28-07-2017, 01:29 PM
RE: nixers community git - by robotchaos - 28-07-2017, 02:12 PM
RE: nixers community git - by z3bra - 28-07-2017, 02:44 PM
RE: nixers community git - by robotchaos - 28-07-2017, 04:36 PM
RE: nixers community git - by pizzaroll1 - 01-08-2017, 09:33 PM
RE: nixers community git - by z3bra - 02-08-2017, 03:49 AM
RE: nixers community git - by r4ndom - 02-08-2017, 06:33 AM
RE: nixers community git - by z3bra - 02-08-2017, 08:35 AM
RE: nixers community git - by evbo - 02-08-2017, 12:31 PM
RE: nixers community git - by z3bra - 02-08-2017, 07:50 PM
RE: nixers community git - by pizzaroll1 - 02-08-2017, 09:05 PM
RE: nixers community git - by jkl - 02-08-2017, 09:18 PM
RE: nixers community git - by pizzaroll1 - 02-08-2017, 11:17 PM
RE: nixers community git - by venam - 03-08-2017, 01:35 AM
RE: nixers community git - by venam - 03-08-2017, 02:32 AM
RE: nixers community git - by z3bra - 03-08-2017, 04:06 AM
RE: nixers community git - by venam - 03-08-2017, 05:19 AM
RE: nixers community git - by Tmplt - 03-08-2017, 07:19 AM
RE: nixers community git - by z3bra - 03-08-2017, 08:30 AM
RE: nixers community git - by venam - 03-08-2017, 08:38 AM
RE: nixers community git - by pizzaroll1 - 03-08-2017, 12:34 PM
RE: nixers community git - by evbo - 03-08-2017, 01:57 PM
RE: nixers community git - by josuah - 05-08-2017, 08:51 AM
RE: nixers community git - by z3bra - 05-08-2017, 03:15 PM
RE: nixers community git - by josuah - 05-08-2017, 03:48 PM
RE: nixers community git - by Tmplt - 13-01-2018, 09:19 AM
RE: nixers community git - by z3bra - 16-01-2018, 09:55 AM
RE: nixers community git - by Tmplt - 16-01-2018, 02:36 PM
RE: nixers community git - by xero - 17-01-2018, 01:48 PM
RE: nixers community git - by venam - 17-01-2018, 01:53 PM
RE: nixers community git - by pranomostro - 26-08-2018, 05:33 PM
RE: nixers community git - by z3bra - 29-11-2018, 10:03 AM
RE: nixers community git - by dab - 04-12-2018, 10:01 AM
RE: nixers community git - by Steph - 04-12-2018, 11:19 AM
RE: nixers community git - by z3bra - 05-12-2018, 06:40 PM