It being open source also allows you to actually have a read of the software and guarantee things yourself, which is the harder better path anyway.
replyThis actually makes me wonder if cal.com has had a security breach in their hosted offering that they are not disclosing.
replyIt seems to be more that they're using "security" as a reason for going closed source, so this is just sticking with the story.
replyFair point.
replyBut the OSS license already absolves them of responsibility. This might just be to set the tone that security fixes won't be prioritized to the standard that they used to be.
replyYou seem really confident that an OSS license would protect them from liability… what is that confidence based on?
replyIt's a straightforward MIT license: https://github.com/calcom/cal.diy/blob/main/LICENSE
reply> IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
This is good , switching from viral license to more corporate friendly licensig
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