In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jason Fleshman
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

| Jay Garcia wrote:

| I think he's talking about the small print at the bottom of the "about:" 
| page:

| U.S. GOVERNMENT END USERS. The Software is a "commercial item," as that 
| term is defined in 48 C.F.R. 2.101 (Oct. 1995), consisting of 
| "commercial computer software" and "commercial computer software 
| documentation," as such terms are used in 48 C.F.R. 12.212 (Sept. 1995). 
| Consistent with 48 C.F.R. 12.212 and 48 C.F.R. 227.7202-1 through 
| 227.7202-4 (June 1995), all U.S. Government End Users acquire the 
| Software with only those rights set forth herein.

| As far as I understand, it tells the government what ways the program 
| can and can't be used according to the government's security rules.

shouldn't this sort of thing be in the license(s)? 

does it conflict with the GPL? 

  -- erno

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