This one time, at band camp, Philippe Cloutier said: > Steve Langasek a écrit : > > >On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 03:55:53PM -0500, Filipus Klutiero wrote: > > > >>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.
This part clarifies that that the government has no additional rights beyond those of the license. > >>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. And this grants them standard rights under the GPL. > >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? Does that make it clearer? -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- | ,''`. Stephen Gran | | : :' : [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | `. `' Debian user, admin, and developer | | `- http://www.debian.org | -----------------------------------------------------------------
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