In message <[email protected]>, MRAB wrote:
> Lawrence D'Oliveiro<[email protected]_zealand> writes: >> >> Wonder why Sun’s licence explicitly forbade its use in danger-critical >> areas like nuclear power plants and the like, then? > > I thought it was just that if it wasn't explicitly forbidden then > someone might try to use it and then sue if something went wrong, even > though common sense would have said that it was a bad idea in the first > place! :-) But you’ll notice that Free Software comes with no such restrictions. In fact, it is contrary to commonly-accepted Free Software guidelines to impose any sort of restrictions on areas of use. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
