[Evergreen-governance-l] Board liability protection (was: Membership Dues - a bad idea?)

[Amy Terlaga]

RE:  IANAL

So I had to look that one up:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IANAL


One of the more obscure chat abbreviations!


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-----Original Message-----
From: Dan Scott [mailto:dan at coffeecode.net] 
Sent: Thursday, September 02, 2010 9:25 AM
To: Amy Terlaga
Cc: evergreen-governance-l at list.georgialibraries.org
Subject: Board liability protection (was: Membership Dues - a bad idea?)

On Wed, 2010-09-01 at 17:11 -0400, Amy Terlaga wrote:

> And I'm assuming that the Software Freedom Conservancy has Board
liability
> insurance protection?  Dan, have you already answered that for us and
I've
> forgotten?

I checked with Bradley Kuhn this morning, and his response was:

"""
IANAL, but as I understand from Karen, the liability protection for
coding activities is roughly equivalent to that you'd get as an employee
of a company employed to code. You wouldn't get liability protection for
anything other than coding and writing documentation.
"""

Karen is one of the lawyers associated with the SFC.