A law and regulation is written one way and interpreted a different way by the courts. In the USA it's all about case law.
Hypothetical:
I write a nifty alarm clock app. To cover some costs I charge a nominal fee. Some unknown condition occurs a user misses a flight and loses their job.
According to your position I should be sued.
Why should I be held liable?
Daniel Stenberg has a blog post somewhere about all the hate mail he gets over the fact that curl is bundled in some software. You don't think some litigious person won't attempt to go after him over it?
My family has personally impacted by a dumb lawyer trying to subpoena information incorrectly. Dealing with this was 7k in lawyer fees, covered by an insurance policy. Technically he could legally held for this terrible usage of the courts but it would have been an even bigger mess.
Hypothetical:
I write a nifty alarm clock app. To cover some costs I charge a nominal fee. Some unknown condition occurs a user misses a flight and loses their job.
According to your position I should be sued.
Why should I be held liable?
Daniel Stenberg has a blog post somewhere about all the hate mail he gets over the fact that curl is bundled in some software. You don't think some litigious person won't attempt to go after him over it?
My family has personally impacted by a dumb lawyer trying to subpoena information incorrectly. Dealing with this was 7k in lawyer fees, covered by an insurance policy. Technically he could legally held for this terrible usage of the courts but it would have been an even bigger mess.