> It now seems to be established that putting Open Source software up on > a public server is protected speech. Exporting copies of closed source > proprietary software, however, is not. This means that Microsoft has to > avoid knowingly exporting restricted material to certain countries.
My understanding is that export of *source code* is allowed, whereas export of *executable code* is at risk. And Free Software squeezes in-between because someone was sane enough to realize that whether `make` is run before exporting or after exporting doesn't make any difference to the end result. Stefan