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Dear Debian Legal,
I'm working on a package that includes a source file from a tutorial on
the Sun Developer's Network. The source file is not explicitly
licensed, so it falls under the catch-all license link [1] that Sun
publishes at the bottom of all of their pages. [2]
The license itself seems until it includes this statement:
You acknowledge that this software is not designed, licensed or
intended for use in the design, construction, operation or maintenance
of any nuclear facility.
My question is, should this be considered a limitation as per part 6 of
the DFSG (No Discrimination Against Fields of Endeavor)? The software
is dguitar [3], a reader/player application of GuitarPro tablature
files, so it's quite a stretch to think about it being used in
conjunction with a nuclear facility (whatever the legal definition of
that would be).
The software must already go into contrib because it requires a non-free
JVM. Does the upstream author need to state somewhere in his license
that dguitar was not "designed, licensed, or intended" for use in a
nuclear facility? And doesn't that just push it back into non-free anyway?
Thank you in advance for your advice,
tony mancill
P.S. Please cc: me on replies, as I am not subscribed to the list.
[1] http://developers.sun.com/license/berkeley_license.html
[2] For an example, see the bottom right-hand corner of
http://java.sun.com/products/jfc/tsc/articles/threads/threads2.html
[3] http://dguitar.sourceforge.net
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