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Re:The Navy’s newest warship is powered by Linux by X4 on Friday October 18, 2013 @12:59PM (#6572428)
That's not your fault, but if you have a bug in there and the ship sips, can they sue you?
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Re:The Navy’s newest warship is powered by Linux by takluyver on Friday October 18, 2013 @01:40PM (#6572700)
Most open source licenses explicitly say that the software is provided with no warranty. IANAL, but I think that's intended to prevent people suing you if they use your code and something goes wrong.
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