On Thu, 2004-10-14 at 09:49 +0200, Kaare Hviid wrote: > > If the Sun legal department can't be convinced of dropping "licensed", > could they by any chance be convinced of rewriting it as "licensed by > the U.S. Department of Energy"? That should make the context clear, > also considering that Sun at times makes their software available to > non-US residents. >
This particular word has been dropped from some revisions of the license, including the one I use for my IPMItool project as well as for all the Cobalt Networks code that we released: http://ipmitool.sourceforge.net/LICENSE http://bluequartz.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/ui/LICENSE.txt?rev=1.1.1.1 The full text of this clause now states: You acknowledge that this software is not designed or intended for use in the design, construction, operation or maintenance of any nuclear facility. I can't say why or when the wording was changed. There is still software coming out of Sun that uses one form or the other, including STSF, sunxacml and portions of java3d, java-games, and the java-enterprise framework. -duncan
