Licensing Query: Windmill for University Hospital IT (Internal Use)
Hi Windmill Team/Community,
We are currently exploring workflow orchestrator software for internal use within the IT department of a university hospital. Windmill looks very promising for our needs!
We're particularly interested in starting with the Community Edition to evaluate its suitability, with the potential to upgrade to the Enterprise Edition if it works well.
I've been reviewing your terms and conditions at https://www.windmill.dev/terms, specifically Section 2 ("Restrictions and responsibilities"). Our concern is regarding the following clause in Section 2.1:
"...use the Licensed Materials in connection with any high risk or strict liability activity (including, without limitation, space travel, firefighting, police operations, power plant operation, military operations, rescue operations, hospital and medical operations or the like)..."Given that we are a university hospital, we need to clarify whether using the Community Edition (and potentially the Enterprise Edition in the future) for internal IT department workflows (e.g., automating internal administrative tasks, provisioning, monitoring, etc., not directly for patient care systems or life-critical medical operations) would fall under this restriction. Could you please provide some clarification on whether our intended use case (internal IT operations within a university hospital) is permissible under the Community Edition license, and how this clause specifically applies to such scenarios? Thank you for your time and assistance! ---
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Hi @S2P2 , those terms are written by lawyers and I suppose there is a reason with respect to the issue of making us not being responsible in case any issue arise given the sensitivity of what those industries are working on. As long as you can sign that we cannot be made responsible in any case, I think we can grant you a license