On Monday 28 January 2002 07:03, Dmitry Yu. Bolkhovityanov wrote: | On Thu, 17 Jan 2002, Alexander Gelfenbain wrote: | > I can confirm that the license ST will be released with is "BSD+" which | > is standard BSD with the following clause: | > | > * You acknowledge that this software is not designed, licensed or | > indended * for use in the design, construction, operation or | > maintenance of any * nuclear facility. | | Sorry if it is a stupid question (I'm not a lawyer :), but does | this clause mean that if ST somehow gets into Red Hat, SuSE or some other | distro, we (see my signature) and other high-energy physics labs will | have no legal right to use these distros?
Hello Dmitry, others! I am afraid that statement in Sun license above exactly means that you can't use this software (ST library) in "design, construction, operation or maintenance of any nuclear facility", including nuclear reactors and nuclear weapons. While most likely it was standard clause added by Sun to ST library in the same way as for their other software - it is indeed too restrictive and too much different from BSD software license. On the second thought - this clause is really not compatible with Open-Source, as it controls the way *how* and *where* I use open-source software. BTW: Linux (and XFree) is used in many different areas, and in design of nuclear facilities & weapons as well. If someone wants to restrict usage of either Linux or XFree in some way - well, I guess this software should be distributed separatly from Linux or Xfree86 or major Linux distributions. | | Can you please ask your legal department to make that statement | more clear? | | TIA, | Dmitry | | _________________________________________ | Dmitry Yu. Bolkhovityanov | The Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics | Novosibirsk, Russia -- Vadim Plessky http://kde2.newmail.ru (English) 33 Window Decorations and 6 Widget Styles for KDE http://kde2.newmail.ru/kde_themes.html KDE mini-Themes http://kde2.newmail.ru/themes/ _______________________________________________ Fonts mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/fonts
