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[Dr. David Kirkby]

On Mon, 27 Mar 2023 at 03:11, Brad Morrison <bradmorrison at sonic.net> wrote:

> I will
> say that some people in open source communities may not realize how
> common it is for people outside of the open source realm to be very
> hesitant about using open source software. I have encountered this
> attitude a lot from various lawyers and business people with the primary
> reason being financial risk & responsibility. If an open source software
> is responsible for an error that results in damages, many decision
> makers want to be able to hold someone financially responsible for that
> mistake and recoup their losses.


It's interesting you say that. Many years ago I wrote some finite
difference code

https://atlc.sourceforge.net/

Once a publisher asked me if they could include a copy of the code on a CD
with a book they were going to publish on modelling of electromagnetic
systems. My reply was "sure, it's released under the GPL, just use it". But
that did not satisfy them. *They wanted it confirmed in writing that they
could use the code.* I could hardly be bothered to send a letter to them,
but agreed with them that I would write a letter if they would send me a
copy of the book when it was published. They agreed to that, so I confirmed
in writing that they could include this GPL code with the book.

It struck me as very weird, but at least I got a decent hardback textbook
out of it. 👍

Dave