[Fedora-legal-list] xmlroff BSD with usage restriction

Josh Boyer jwboyer at gmail.com
Wed Feb 20 02:17:37 UTC 2008


On Wed, 20 Feb 2008 12:00:32 +1000
Jens Petersen <petersen at redhat.com> 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?

I don't see a problem with that myself.  It's not a restriction.  It's
basically an additional "there is no warranty" disclaimer.

josh




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