"Benjamin A'Lee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 2006-03-15 at 12:22 +0100, Henning Makholm wrote: > > Scripsit Jesse van den Kieboom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > My situation is as follows. The application itself is GPL licenced, but > > > some of the code has been taken from the lambdamoo server. The lambdamoo > > > source is copyrighted with the following copyright: > > > > > Copyright (c) 1992, 1995, 1996 Xerox Corporation. All rights > > > reserved. > > ... > > > Any distribution of this software or derivative works must comply > > > with all applicable United States export control laws. > > > > This is a non-free condition. > > > > Surely it'd only be non-free if it said "must comply with United States > export control laws"? Outside the US, US export laws are not > applicable, so the condition doesn't apply. Or am I missing something?
US export laws restrict a number of types of software that you might not think were problematic (hydrodynamic simulation codes). If they were enforced, it would significantly hamper the ability of US scientists to distribute code. What makes it tolerable is that it is only enforced against certain, more specific types of software (radiation-hydrodynamic simulation codes). With this license, distributing the first type of software outside the US would be prohibited, even though the government doesn't actually care. Cheers, Walter Landry [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
