Re: spice3 has been released
On Mon, 17 Aug 1998, Enrique Zanardi wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 17, 1998 at 01:16:20PM +0100, Jules Bean wrote:
> > On Mon, 17 Aug 1998, Joop Stakenborg wrote:
> >
> > > Copying-policy: Free for people friendly to the U.S.A.
> >
> > Discrimination.
> >
> > Clearly non-DFSG free.
> >
> > Possibly can't even go in non-free, depending if there is a longer and
> > more precise copying policy somewhere...
>
> There are a lot of programs that can't be exported to some countries
> (Lybia, Cuba, ...) because of US export laws. It's not the license that
> makes them non-DFSG free, but the US laws, as is the case for crypto.
> Perhaps it's the same for spice.
Of course. US laws, per se, cannot make something non-free (although they
can put it in us). I had read that to be the licenses granted by the
author.
Is there not a proper COPYING or other license file inside the package?
Jules
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