Sun nuke clause in iText [was Re: License review for new itext version]

Ville Skyttä ville.skytta at iki.fi
Tue Feb 5 08:03:29 UTC 2008


On Tuesday 05 February 2008, Jonathan Underwood wrote:
> Dear Tom,
>
> Last year we corresponded briefly[1] about the licensing of some files
> in iText which originate from Sun.  This issue is that these files
> contain the Sun "nuke" clause[2] which makes it impossible to include
> the software in Fedora.
[...]
> [2] "You acknowledge that Software is not designed,licensed or
> intended for use in
> the design, construction, operation or maintenance of any nuclear
> facility."

FYI, iText 2.0.8 is out, and the "licensed" word from the above is gone in it.

http://itext.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/itext/trunk/src/core/com/lowagie/text/misc_licenses.txt?r1=3074&r2=3101&view=patch




More information about the fedora-devel-list mailing list