Liability in software engineering
Daniel Le Métayer, Manuel Maarek, Valérie Viêt Triêm Tông, Eduardo Mazza, Marie-Laure Potet, Nicolas Craipeau, Stéphane Frénot, Ronan Hardouin · 2010
LISE is a multidisciplinary project involving lawyers and computer scientists with the aim to put forward a set of methods and tools to (1) define software liability in a precise and unambiguous way and (2) establish such liability in case of incident. This paper provides an overview of the overall approach taken in the project based on a case study. The case study illustrates a situation where, in order to reduce legal uncertainties, the parties to a contract wish to include in the agreement specific clauses to define as precisely as possible the share of liabilities between them for the main types of failures of the system.