{"id":1211918,"date":"2023-12-11T14:55:53","date_gmt":"2023-12-11T19:55:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1211918"},"modified":"2023-12-11T14:55:53","modified_gmt":"2023-12-11T19:55:53","slug":"bottomley-solving-the-looming-developer-liability-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1211918","title":{"rendered":"Bottomley: Solving the Looming Developer Liability Problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>James Bottomley <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.hansenpartnership.com\/solving-the-looming-developer-liability-problem\/\">writes<\/a><br \/>\nthat open-source developers are increasingly likely to be held liable for<br \/>\nflaws in their code and suggests a solution:\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"bq\"><p>\n\tIndemnification means one party, in particular circumstances,<br \/>\n\tagreeing to be on the hook for the legal responsibilities of<br \/>\n\tanother party. This is actually a well known way not of avoiding<br \/>\n\tliability but transferring it to where it belongs. As such, it\u2019s<br \/>\n\teasily sellable in the court of public opinion: we\u2019re not looking<br \/>\n\tto avoid liability, merely trying to make sure it lands on those<br \/>\n\twho are making all the money from the code.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: LWN.net &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/lwn.net\/Articles\/954528\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bottomley: Solving the Looming Developer Liability Problem<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Bottomley writes that open-source developers are increasingly likely to be held liable for flaws in their code and suggests a solution: Indemnification means one party, in particular circumstances, agreeing to be on the hook for the legal responsibilities of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1211918\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[75],"class_list":["post-1211918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux","tag-linux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1211918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1211918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1211918\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1211918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1211918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1211918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}