Ingres r3 released - License OSI compliant ? [LWN.net]

Ingres r3 released - License OSI compliant ?

Posted Nov 1, 2004 16:52 UTC (Mon) by allesfresser (subscriber, #216)
In reply to: Ingres r3 released - License OSI compliant ? by adulau
Parent article: Ingres r3 released

It does seem to prohibit use in certain situations, but for liability reasons, not for ideological ones, which is what the OSI definition covers, IMHO. It does make sense to restrict the use of a program away from things it was not designed to handle, and which carry a lot of risk of physical harm if things fail accidentally. Perhaps one could modify the program to specifically handle this kind of thing and then ask for an exception on the license clause, if one wanted to certify (and be liable for) major catastrophes like this. Yikes! Not me. :-)

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Where is the prohibition?

Posted Nov 1, 2004 17:03 UTC (Mon) by JoeBuck (subscriber, #2330) [Link]

The language does not prohibit the use of the program in any application. It just appears to be a CYA in case someone does use the program in a safety-critical application and something goes wrong.