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Re: DFSG-freeness of the "CID Font Code Public Licence"



This one time, at band camp, Jacobo Tarrio said:
> El lunes,  5 de junio de 2006 a las 19:39:46 +1000, Andrew Donnellan escribía:
> 
> > But it doesn't say that - it says applicable laws, if that includes US
> > export laws then there's nothing you can do about it because it would
> > apply to you in any case.
> 
>  It says applicable laws, including US export laws. That's: applicable laws,
> and, in addition to them, US export laws. If I live in the EU, US export
> laws are not applicable laws to me, but per the license, I'd have to comply
> anyway.

I think you're misparsing what includes means.  Includes indicates a
subset, rather than an addition.  The list of numbers 1 .. 4 includes 2.
It is a nonsense statement to say, the list 1 ..4, including 5.
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