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# DISABLES ADDITIONAL ACTIONS FOR DRAFTERS

Comment 3242: Difficult to understand


Regarding the text: f. requiring indemnification of licensors and authors of that material by anyone who conveys the material (or modified versions of it) with contractual assumptions of liability to the recipient, for any liability that these contractual assumptions directl
In section: gpl3.licensecompat.p7.s1
Submitted by: emk on 2007-06-02 at 23:49 EDT
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noted by emk on 2007-06-02 at 23:49 EDT:

This is the other passage I've been struggling with--I've read it several times, and it's still not clear how many different parties are involved, and what their relationships might be.
noted by flaschen on 2007-06-03 at 01:49 EDT:

It's meant to assure compatiblity with the Apache license. Don't worry if you don't understand it. Neither did the FSF at first; that's why they took so long to add it. If I understand the rationale, it basically means that if:

1. Alan writes a program.

2. Bob redistributes it to Charlie.

3. Bob offers Charlie a warranty and says Bob will assume liability with for any problems Charlie has with the program.

Then:

4. Bob must ensure that if this somehow gets Alan sued, Bob protects Alan.

noted by sepreece on 2007-06-03 at 15:33 EDT:

The prepositional phrases do get confusing. The main line of it is: "requiring indemnification of licensors ... by anyone who conveys ... for any liability...".

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