[xmlroff] license question (nuclear facility clause)

[W. Martin Borgert]

Hi,

there was a discussion on this list in 2006-02, but what was the
result? The file "COPYING" closes with the following statement:

"You acknowledge that this Software is not designed, licensed or
intended for use in the design, construction, operation or maintenance
of any nuclear facility."

Does this mean, that the copyright holder does not allow to use
xmlroff in nuclear facilities? Or do they just not want to be
held responsible, if the use of xmlroff will lead to a
Chernobyl-like desaster? In the first case, this would make
xmlroff non-free in the sense of both DFSG[1] and OSD[2].

[1] The Debian Free Software Guidelines (DFSG),
http://www.debian.org/social_contract#guidelines, say:

"6. No Discrimination Against Fields of Endeavor

The license must not restrict anyone from making use of the
program in a specific field of endeavor. For example, it may not
restrict the program from being used in a business, or from
being used for genetic research."

[2] The Open Source Defintion (OSD),
http://www.opensource.org/docs/osd, says exactly the same.

Cheers,
-- 
W. Martin Borgert <debacle at debian.org>, http://people.debian.org/~debacle/