Re: [Fedora-legal-list] xmlroff BSD with usage restriction
On Wed, 2008-02-20 at 12:00 +1000, Jens Petersen wrote:
xmlroff (http://xmlroff.org/) is under a BSD license
http://xmlroff.org/browser/trunk/xmlroff/COPYING
which has an additional sentence:
"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 means it can't be included in Fedora?
Yes. That license is a show stopper, because of the wording "not ...
licensed ... for use". Is Sun the copyright holder on that license? The
last time we saw that license, Sun was the author, and they seemed
willing to fix the wording.
~spot