[Gllug] [OT] - Looking for a job (Part 2)

[Wenceslao Requejo]

Dear Peter,

If I am being too careful regarding the distribution of my software is
because I being advice to do so by an American diabetes suffered that
created an Open Source application to map the food intake onto blood
sugar changes, some sort of database with loads of different types of
food and how each would affect your blood sugar levels. As far as my
understanding goes the GNU/GPL doesn't provide any protection against
tort and liability may someone misuse the software and hurt him/herself.
We are talking about a "medical" software, and the possible consequence
of someone misusing the software could be much worse than some HD
failure, or some hardware damage. 
Also, and you are quite right here, the possibility of ending up in
court are quite slim, at least in this side of the Atlantic.

It would be interesting to hear from all of you regarding this issue, as
I would love to be able to widely release the software for anyone to
use.

In any case, if you want to and you are interested I can send you the
source code.

   
Cheers,  

Wenceslao Requejo

> 
> 
> On 19/10/2007, Wenceslao Requejo <W.Requejo at student.westminster.ac.uk>
> wrote:
>         Hi everyone.
>         
>         I am still looking for a job, so I decided to get back to you
>         all.
>         
>         I just graduated on BSc Software Engineering with a 1st class.
>         
>         I am ideally looking for a Graduate or Junior C/C++ developer
>         position, 
>         Although I could consider other positions such as Linux
>         administrator or
>         LAMP developer as part time or for a short period of time to
>         keep me
>         going while I work on some C++ projects.
>         
>         I have commercial experience programming on C with gtk, and
>         using PHP 
>         and LAMP. I also have commercial experience on other more
>         administration/consultancy stuff like Radius, Syslog, Wireless
>         Hotspot,
>         etc.
>         
>         Academically, I completed a pretty good project, kdiabetic, an
>         Open
>         Source diabetes management application ( see
>         www.kdiabetic.org.uk )
>         written in C++ and using the QT framework.
>         
>         Please get back to me on or off list with any comments or
>         questions, and 
>         please check my website for more information about my project
>         (www.kdiabetic.org.uk)
> 
> 
> Hmm Interesting, (says a fellow diabetic (Type 1 in my case)) 
> 
> Silly question but what restrictions in the GPL stop it from being
> downloadable? Surly the GPL says something along the lines of must be
> used at your own risk and no support is given.  
> 
> I doubt any case would stand up in court anyway.... 
> 
> Peter.

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