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by amoe_ 2131 days ago
How would this be applied in the case where the user was a wholly-or-partially state-funded organization (that was neither military nor law enforcement)?

[clearly hasn't been lawyer-vetted, but any wild guesses?]

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At a guess, State or NIAID or NCBI would be permitted to use software with this license - the distinction appears to be that civil government or NGO is allowed, while military or LE is not.

Not, I agree, that this would likely prove enforceable as written, but I think that's what they're going for. And maybe they're trying to elicit a test case? That makes more sense than some of the speculation at hand, I think.