RE: [I18n]Re: [Devel] Re: [Fonts]Another approach to text in X

[David Smith]

This is probably due to the ITAR restriction on shipping any software to 
foreign countries (at least a list of countries) that can be used in the 
"design, construction, operation or maintenance of any nuclear facility". They 
regs are fun to read (assuming you have trouble sleeping) but are really clear 
on the restriction. I suspect that Sun legal is protecting their interest (as 
most software companies have to).

Regards
David

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Subject: Re: [I18n]Re: [Devel] Re: [Fonts]Another approach to text in X



I don't really know. This clause obviously came from our legal department.

AG

On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 03:13:22PM +0000, Markus Kuhn wrote:
> 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.
> 
> > We are working on publicly releasing the docs and placing the source code 
> > on 
> > sourceforge or some other public CVS server. Please stay tuned.
> 
> I'm very much looking forward to seeing it.
> 
> Markus
> 
> -- 
> Markus G. Kuhn, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK
> Email: mkuhn at acm.org,  WWW: <http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/>
> 

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Alexander Gelfenbain, Sun Microsystems, Inc.
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