Why?

[David Presotto]

> If you say so. I understand that for the patent infringement (see lower 
> and above), but for damages, I think it is weird. I would expect the 
> party that made money of it to get sued, and possibly convicted, but 
> not the original authors that put the thing in the public domain.
> Actually, that would mean that also research papers on physics or 
> medicin or pharmaceuticals need a disclaimer. If the researcher made a 
> mistake, or even if some third party misused the paper, the researcher 
> can get sued.
> Hm. Sorry, but I'm not really convinced.

Please don't make this case to our lawyers; I like publishing.
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