Steve Langasek a écrit :
On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 03:55:53PM -0500, Filipus Klutiero wrote:
Package: amsn
Version: 0.95+dfsg2-0.2
Severity: serious
des.tcl contains the following paragraph at the end of its license
terms:
GOVERNMENT USE: If you are acquiring this software on behalf of the U.S.
government, the Government shall have only "Restricted Rights" in the
software and related documentation as defined in the Federal Acquisition
Regulations (FARs) in Clause 52.227.19 (c) (2). If you are acquiring the
software on behalf of the Department of Defense, the software shall be
classified as "Commercial Computer Software" and the Government shall have
only "Restricted Rights" as defined in Clause 252.227-7013 (c) (1) of
DFARs. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the authors grant the U.S.
Government and others acting in its behalf permission to use and
distribute the software in accordance with the terms specified in this
license.
IANAL, but this seems to prohibit some things allowed by the GPL to the
U.S. government. If I understand right, the U.S. Department of Defense is
not allowed to redistribute or copy freely des.tcl, which would violate
the DFSG.
No, this is a statement that the copyright on the work is not *waived* where
the federal government is concerned. It doesn't contradict the GPL, it
merely clarifies that the government has no implicit, special rights over
the software beyond those specified in the GPL.
Hum, this is not what I read. Do you agree that the license basically
states that the Department of Defense has only "Restricted Rights" as
defined in Clause 252.227-7013 (c) (1) of DFARs on the software?
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