@abucci@anthony.buc.ci Many (most?) licenses in the world of free software explicitly deny any liability (is that how you say it in English? I think you know what I mean). So, if a user still uses that software for âpotentially dangerousâ things, whoâs to blame? The software? Or the user?
We Germans always have to make an analogy with cars đ , so here you go: If thereâs a guy on the street offering you a car and he says, âoh, maybe itâll drive, maybe itâll explode, who knows â either way, the risk is yours, Iâm just offering itâ, you might still be interested in using that car for certain things. But you wouldnât use it as an ambulance car or a taxi or whatever. Or you might actually do that after carefully inspecting it and/or fixing some things.
So, if there actually are any liability issues here in the current laws â I know nothing about that field, especially not when it comes to corporations â, I think this should be fixed at the userâs end. You run a hospital? Then there are certain standards for you and youâre liable for certain things. If that implies that you can no longer use, say, nginx, then thatâs not nginxâs problem, but yours.
I would argue that you cannot hold programmers liable if they contribute to a free software project that is publicly available, because you donât know how this software is going to be used.
(Plus, I have a hard time imagining how you as a programmer could prove that youâve done a good job. Whatâs the criterium here? Clearly, it canât be âno bugs everâ. So, what is it, âno damage above 1000 dollarsâ or something like that? What does the EU thingy say here?)