It looks like it is just making explicit the restrictions which already exist in law (whatever those might be), and is not part of the license per se.
-brad On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 08:29:22PM -0400, Eric Dorland wrote: > Ok, thanks for the help... problem #2: > > there's a README in the documentation has a standard warranty > disclaimer, but then it has this text: > > US Government Users Restricted Rights > Use, duplication, or disclosure by the Government is subject to > restrictions set forth in FAR 52.227.19(c)(2) or subparagraph > (c)(1)(ii) of the Rights in Technical Data and Computer Software > clause at DFARS 252.227-7013 and/or in similar or successor > clauses in the FAR or the DOD or NASA FAR Supplement. > Unpublished-- rights reserved under the copyright laws of the > United States. Contractor/manufacturer is Silicon Graphics, > Inc., 2011 N. Shoreline Blvd., Mountain View, CA 94039-7311. > > > Which seems to imply that US Government users have additional > restrictions, which probably goes against point #6 of the DFSG, but i'm > not sure what the restrictions are (and have no idea how to look them > up). Should i put this non-free? > > * Julian Gilbey ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 11:00:55PM -0400, Eric Dorland wrote: > > > i'd like to package the opengl manpages... but there tarballs are a bit > > > strange... they're .Z files to begin with, and they don't appear to have > > > a version number (some other docs have 1.2 as a version, so i suppose i > > > can assume this) and the files untar into a directory called > > > "release". I'm guessing i'm going to have to rename and retar the > > > directory, but i couldn't really find any policy on how much to > > > change. Is it alright to let the thing untar into some other directory? > > > > Probably sufficient to uncompress it and gzip it: > > > > uncompress opengl-1.2.tar.Z > > gzip -9 opengl-1.2.tar > > mv opengl-1.2.tar.gz opengl_1.2.orig.tar.gz > > > > Then untar it (tar zxvf opengl_1.2.orig.tar.gz; mv release opengl-1.2), > > do any changes you need (introduce debian/ directory etc.) and try > > building it. dpkg-source is pretty intelligent these days, so you > > probably don't need to worry about the directory name. > > > > Julian > > > > -- > > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- > > > > Julian Gilbey, Dept of Maths, Queen Mary, Univ. of London > > Debian GNU/Linux Developer, see http://people.debian.org/~jdg > > Donate free food to the world's hungry: see http://www.thehungersite.com/ > > > > > > -- > > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > Eric Dorland > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ICQ: #61138586 > 1024D/16D970C6 097C 4861 9934 27A0 8E1C 2B0A 61E9 8ECF 16D9 70C6
