prohibiting use that would result in death or personal injury

[Rod Dixon, J.D., LL.M.]

I am reading this out of the context of the entire license, but the wording
seems fine. Please excuse me from repeating what others may have already
said. I think this language is good and could be enhanced with an additional
phrase or two depending on your purpose. For example, as you have drafted
the sentence, it is quite suitable for limiting the purposes for which your
software may be used, which actually is a smart idea. I suspect, however,
that you may want to go a step further and disclaim any liability for injury
from use of the program for the purposes that the program was not designed.
If so, I would add a sentence to that effect.

Rod


> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Johnson [mailto:david at usermode.org]
> Sent: Sunday, July 23, 2000 4:41 PM
> To: Justin Wells; license-discuss at opensource.org
> Subject: Re: prohibiting use that would result in death or personal
> injury
>
>
> On Sun, 23 Jul 2000, Justin Wells wrote:
> > On Sat, Jul 22, 2000 at 01:51:04PM -0700, Seth David Schoen wrote:
> >
> > > 	This software is not designed or intended for use in
> > > 	real-time or on-line control of nuclear, chemical,
> > > 	aviation, medical, or life-safety critical systems.
> >
> > I'm going to adopt this language in my license for the time being; but
> > I still think there's a very thorny issue here and I'd like to hear more
> > people's thoughts on the matter.
>
> I like this wording. It does not come right out and forbid its use in
> such systems, but makes it clear that those who do have been warned.
>
> --
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