Re: Posting from work/university addresses

Eli Zaretskii
2007-08-06T14:22:09Z

> Cc: gdb@sourceware.org, dewar@adacore.com, b07584@freescale.com,
> rgetz@blackfin.uclinux.org, jimb@codesourcery.com
> From: Ian Lance Taylor <iant@google.com>
> Date: 06 Aug 2007 07:02:01 -0700
>
> The reason we would like to block the disclaimers is that they impose
> a legal liability on us. The problematic disclaimers are the ones
> which say something along the lines of "If you are not the intended
> recipient you must not disseminate, copy .... We request that you
> notify COMPANYNAME immediately." The problem is that we can not obey
> those instructions, as we automatically archive the e-mail message and
> make it available for anybody in the world to see. Since we are
> violating the terms of the disclaimer, the sender has reasonable
> grounds to sue us. It is likely that the suit would not prevail in
> the end, as my understanding is that the disclaimers are unenforceable
> under U.S. law, but that does not matter since we are a volunteer
> organization with no means to defend ourselves. I think it is very
> unwise to leave ourselves open to this sort of legal liability. This
> is of course a personal issue for me since as one of the
> administrators of gcc.gnu.org/sourceware.org, and the owner of the
> domain name sourceware.org, I would be personally named in the
> lawsuit.

Thanks for the clarifications. Avoiding legal suits is a perfectly
valid reason, as far as I'm concerned.