Walter Landry wrote:
olive <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
By the way, there are licenses which in my opinion more clearly violates
the DFSGL and are nevertheless accepted. I think of a license of a file
in x.org which prohibit to export it to Cuba. This seems clearly be a
discrimination and moreover it fails the dissident test (even if in this
case the dissidant might be a U.S citizen; not a chinese one). For
someone (like me) living outside the U.S. this is even more flagrant
because to export goods to Cuba is perfectly legal from my country.
Which license is this? I ran
find /usr/share/doc/ -name copyright | xargs -n 100 grep -i cuba
Look at the file xc/README.crypto in the top directory of the source of
the xorg distribution. This has already been discussed in Debian legal
(http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2005/03/msg00477.html) and the
conclusion was (if I understood it well) that this was not a problem
since it is a U.S. law. For someone not living in the U.S. like me this
argument seems inconceivable (would you accept a license which prohibit
to export it in the U.S. because the original developper live in a
country which has laws that prohibit it?). Maybe the other unsaid
argument is the fact that it is not possible for Debian to not include
xorg.
Olive
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