[bawolff]

In this case i don't think he should face legal problems, but people throw this around like its a blank cheque. I hardly think that's true.

Like imagine someone found out their package was being blindly used in a life critical application and the maintainer intentionally sabotaged it. Yes it would be the fault of the people who used it blindly, but im pretty sure the license wouldn't get the maintainer off of murder charges.

[db48x]

There would be no murder charges in that case. The developer of the “life critical application” has sole and ultimate responsibility to ensure that their product works as advertised. The developer of a dependency that they happen to use has no such responsibility. If the application developer updated his dependencies and then didn’t bother to verify that the application still works correctly, then that would be open and shut negligence.