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Re: Is javacc DFSG compliant?



Dalibor Topic <robilad@kaffe.org> writes:

> Brian Thomas Sniffen wrote:
>> Raul Miller <moth@debian.org> writes:
>>>It's illegal in the context of copyrights to make copies for
>>>use in nuclear power plants (which conflicts with the fields
>>>of endeavor part of the DFSG).
>> No, it isn't.  It doesn't say you can't do so -- just that you've
>> acknowledged that the software isn't licensed-by-the-DOE for that or
>> designed for that.
>
> Who is DOE and why is he licensing Sun's software? The BSD+ license
> doesn't mention a DOE, afaik.

The Department of Energy licenses nuclear power facilities in the
USA, and licenses equipment and software for use there.  That license
is what this is talking about.

-- 
Brian Sniffen                                       bts@alum.mit.edu



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