On Mon, 16 Jan 2006, mickaël leduque wrote: > >[13.[8] Geographical Limitations. > > > >If the distribution and/or use of the Program is restricted in certain > >countries either by patents or by copyrighted interfaces, the original > >copyright holder who places the Program under this License may add an > >explicit geographical distribution limitation excluding those countries, > >so that distribution is permitted only in or among countries not thus > >excluded. In such case, this License incorporates the limitation as if > >written in the body of this License.] > > Does that really means that a program, written in USA, adding the > classical clause that forbids exportation in some countries don't > remember, I think it's cuba, iran, etc.) will be free in the US, but non > free in the rest of the world, where no such clause are mandatory, but > where adding it constitutes a *discrimination against some part of the > population* ?
Whatever this clause means is actually rather difficult to dicern; luckily it has been deleted in GPLv3. Don Armstrong -- I never until now realized that the primary job of any emoticon is to say "excuse me, that didn't make any sense." ;-P -- Cory Doctorow http://www.donarmstrong.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu
