Re: GPL source vs. binary

1999-11-18 Thread William T Wilson
On Thu, 18 Nov 1999, Darren O. Benham wrote: > Does a source that's licensed under the GPL automaticly produce a binary > that can only be licensed under the GPL? If you are the author of the program, you can distribute the binary and the source under separate, even incompatible, licenses. You c

Re: GPL source vs. binary

1999-11-18 Thread Samuel Hocevar
On Thu, Nov 18, 1999, Darren O. Benham wrote: > Does a source that's licensed under the GPL automaticly produce a binary > that can only be licensed under the GPL? Since a compilation is a translation into machine language, then the resulting binary can be considered a derivative of the Program, a

GPL source vs. binary

1999-11-18 Thread Darren O. Benham
Does a source that's licensed under the GPL automaticly produce a binary that can only be licensed under the GPL? -- Please cc all mailing list replies to me, also. = * http://benham.net/index.html<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: mutt no longer in non-us?

1999-11-18 Thread Bruce Perens
It's too much of a slippery slope. Put something with 3000 lines of crypto hooks in non-US. Then 300 lines. Then 30. Then anything that runs exec(). Bruce

Re: mutt no longer in non-us?

1999-11-18 Thread Joey Hess
Joseph Carter wrote: > The software provides configuration file options which allow you to run > any arbitrary program through standard functions used for running any and > every program on the system and captures the results. This does not > constitute hooks for encryption, though it arguably wou

Re: mutt no longer in non-us?

1999-11-18 Thread Brian Ristuccia
On Thu, Nov 18, 1999 at 11:31:19AM -0800, Seth David Schoen wrote: > Brian Ristuccia writes: > > > Wouldn't seizing said machines violate the electronic communication privacy > > act or something similar by interefering with email on those machines as > > well? > > The ECPA doesn't prevent police

Re: mutt no longer in non-us?

1999-11-18 Thread Seth David Schoen
Brian Ristuccia writes: > Wouldn't seizing said machines violate the electronic communication privacy > act or something similar by interefering with email on those machines as > well? The ECPA doesn't prevent police from seizing computer hardware when they have a warrant, although it would be fu

Re: mutt no longer in non-us?

1999-11-18 Thread Joseph Carter
On Thu, Nov 18, 1999 at 09:22:09AM -0800, Brian Behlendorf wrote: > > If you think about prime numbers near the Mexican borders the US could try > > to say you're exporting crypto. We made the decision that a simple "run > > this seperate program and pipe output back to me" cannot reasonably be >

Re: mutt no longer in non-us?

1999-11-18 Thread Brian Ristuccia
On Thu, Nov 18, 1999 at 09:22:09AM -0800, Brian Behlendorf wrote: > > > And frankly speaking for only myself as a citizen of the US and not as a > > developer here, the US government can shove their crypto regs someplace > > unpleasant---I refuse to comply with them on the grounds that they are an

Re: mutt no longer in non-us?

1999-11-18 Thread Brian Behlendorf
On Thu, 18 Nov 1999, Joseph Carter wrote: > If you think about prime numbers near the Mexican borders the US could try > to say you're exporting crypto. We made the decision that a simple "run > this seperate program and pipe output back to me" cannot reasonably be > considered encryption hooks.

Re: mutt no longer in non-us?

1999-11-18 Thread Joseph Carter
On Thu, Nov 18, 1999 at 02:00:34AM -0800, Brian Behlendorf wrote: > Just to make clear I'm understanding the situation; does mutt have > anything that could be interpreted as "hooks" to encryption, even if it > doesn't have crypto code as part of the package? Or are scripts & > instructions on how

Re: mutt no longer in non-us?

1999-11-18 Thread Brian Behlendorf
On Mon, 15 Nov 1999, Bruce Perens wrote: > From: Brian Ristuccia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > What has changed that allows us to distribute mutt from the US to people > > outside of the US despite the fact that mutt is capable of integrating with > > strong encryption software and thereby capable of per