Re: [I18n]Re: [Devel] Re: [Fonts]Another approach to text in X

[Alexander Gelfenbain]

I don't really know. This clause obviously came from our legal department.

AG

On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 03:13:22PM +0000, Markus Kuhn wrote:
> Alexander Gelfenbain wrote on 2002-01-17 19:59 UTC:
> > 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.
> 
> Just curious: Was this a legal or political requirement?
> 
> I'm not sure, high energy physics on the other side of the street from
> here will in practice be aware of such a strange restriction, once they
> get this package via the next SuSE or Solaris update on their office
> machines. They are in the profession of doing rather cruel things to
> atomic nuclei and design and run facilities to do so.
> 
> > We are working on publicly releasing the docs and placing the source code 
> > on 
> > sourceforge or some other public CVS server. Please stay tuned.
> 
> I'm very much looking forward to seeing it.
> 
> Markus
> 
> -- 
> Markus G. Kuhn, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK
> Email: mkuhn at acm.org,  WWW: <http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/>
> 

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