[xmlroff] license question (nuclear facility clause)

W. Martin Borgert debacle at debian.org
Mon Dec 24 00:41:06 UTC 2007


On Mon, Dec 24, 2007 at 12:04:20AM +0000, Tony Graham wrote:
> IANAL, but I have never understood that clause as prohibiting nuclear
> use and have always understood it as limiting the copyright holder's
> responsibility.

My understanding is the same, just want to be sure.

> At the time, it was an effort to get anything open-sourced, and we were
> in no position to quibble about the one paragraph of the license.

Maybe it would be possible for you to ask Sun now to drop the
last paragraph, or at least the word "licensed" from it? TIA!



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