prohibiting use that would result in death or personal injury

Derek J. Balling dredd at megacity.org
Mon Jul 24 15:01:30 UTC 2000


At 1:40 PM -0700 7/23/00, David Johnson wrote:
>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.

But again, the initial message that started this thread mentioned 
that this type of disclaimer would not be viable in his jurisdiction.

I'm not AGREEING with it, just observing that this doesn't solve the 
original poster's problem.

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