Re: [open-regulatory-compliance] Flowchart from a natural person's persp

[Federico Leva <federico.leva@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for this attempt!

Dick Brooks wrote on 2024-12-22:
>                          Yes:    While it depends on the minutiae; you are almost certainly fine if it is one of the many typical ASF variations of a CLA.
>
>                          No:     you are probably fine; but would be good to introduce a CLA

Are you saying a CLA à la ASF is likely to shift liabilities from the 
grantor to the grantee? How? Apart from the unidirectional copyright and 
patent grant the ICLA only says «Unless required by applicable law or 
agreed to in writing, You provide Your Contributions on an "AS IS" 
BASIS» so it explicitly does not override any legal defaults.

For the case mentioned last week, of a freelance consultant with a 
regularly maintained software package, it seems they'd always end up 
worrying they're in one of the two cases where they have to figure out 
everything themselves:

> 40:     Are you monetising the work you do on this open source ?

> 70      Is there an aspect of a sustained basis & ensuring longer term viability of the product.

Perhaps freelancers need something like a "contract patch" 
(<https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2019/dec/19/CPupdate/>) but for product 
liability?

Best,
	Federico Leva