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Open-Source Insurance

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the scheming-and-racketeering dept.

* * Beatles-Beatles writes to tell us that several insurance agencies have formed a partnership to offer open-source compliance insurance. From the article: " The insurance will cover up to $10 million in damages, including profit losses related to noncompliance with an open-source software license. The policy could, in some cases, cover the cost of repairing code that was found to infringe on open-source licenses such as the General Public License, which is used with the Linux operating system."

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  1. Silly by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    Defending copyright infringement of any source code is ridiculous. You can't accidently copy a line from someone else's program to yours. Infringement is only deliberate.