[DGD] Phantasmal's contributor policy/legal arse covering

[Felix A. Croes]

Shentino <shentino at gmail.com> wrote:

> Just as a precautionary measure, I opted to post this:
>
> http://phantasmal.sourceforge.net/Development/Policy.html
>
> to phantasmals website, as a bit of legal CYA to make sure some
> &*@#^*^ patent troll doesn't swoop down on us
>
> Does anyone have comments one way, another way, or even sideways about it?

It doesn't actually protect against patent extortion, it just
attempts to shift the responsibility.  What if the offending code
is contributed by someone who is only known by a mud alias, who has
since disappeared?

Regards,
Felix Croes