&Tgr;&eegr;&ngr; &Kgr;&ugr;&rgr;, 2002-01-20 &sgr;&tgr;&igr;&sfgr; 15:13, &ogr;/&eegr; Markus Kuhn &eacgr;&ggr;&rgr;&agr;&psgr;&egr;: > 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.
:) Instead of explicit describing "...of any nuclear facility", I have seen it as "..in any safety-critical application" which is more general and looks safer from a legal standpoint. simos _______________________________________________ I18n mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/i18n
