On Sun, 2014-11-09 at 18:48 +0000, Magdalen Berns wrote:
The challenges the OPW organisers face is in figuring out how to encourage projects and mentors to sign up and yet also protect GNOME from a potential lawsuit in the event that things go horribly wrong as a result of something that may not be GNOME's fault.
I don't see much of a challenge. The wording under question is: "For only situations arising out of your gross negligence, recklessness or intentional wrongdoing, you shall indemnify, defend, and hold harmless GNOME, its officers, directors, and employees from any and all claims, demands, damages, costs and liabilities, including reasonable attorneys’ fees, made by any third party due to or arising out of your participation in the Program; your Mentoring Activities (including correspondence with the Participant or Participants, and modification of any Participant’s source code or written materials); or your violation of this Agreement." This is really mundane: I agreed to a more restrictive indemnification than this by simply reading CNN.com today. So has anybody who's ever used Skype, or Flash, or Facebook. (Seriously, check the ToS of Facebook or CNN, the two I bothered to check; they're very similar and include the provision about attorneys' fees.) Or the Internet, really; I'm surprised I didn't have to agree to indemnify my ISP, though maybe that was part of my contract and I just forgot. Anybody can sue anybody for anything, and I highly doubt being an OPW mentor will increase the likelihood of my ending up in court. See also: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2014-September/msg00120.html I'll be getting back to my code now. Michael
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