@sldrant @silverwizard @neil I'm sure there are open source components used in planes and medical devices. But they are regulated, so no-one can use them until compliance is demonstrated to the relevant authority.
Having just read Neil's blog on this subject, one critical question is whether putting something on GitHub constitutes offering a service.
I don't think it should, any more than a research paper on arvix should be considered one.
Source code is knowledge. Binaries are applications.