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

[Alexander Gelfenbain]

I received the following clarification from our legal people:


        The changes to the BSD were intended to remain consistent with the Open 
Source
        Definition stated by OSI. As such, the statement about nuclear 
facilities is
        a notice and not a restriction per se.

        The BSD+ also re-states the limitation of liability provision 
consistent with
        current law.


I don't think any additional interpretation is needed: the clause about
nuclear facilities is a notice and not a restriction.

Regards,
AG


On Mon, Jan 28, 2002 at 01:03:31PM +0600, Dmitry Yu. Bolkhovityanov wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Jan 2002, Alexander Gelfenbain wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> 
>       Sorry if it is a stupid question (I'm not a lawyer :), but does
> this clause mean that if ST somehow gets into Red Hat, SuSE or some other
> distro, we (see my signature) and other high-energy physics labs will have
> no legal right to use these distros?
> 
>       Can you please ask your legal department to make that statement
> more clear?
> 
>       TIA,
>               Dmitry
> 
>       _________________________________________
>         Dmitry Yu. Bolkhovityanov
>         The Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics
>         Novosibirsk, Russia
> 
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