Re: The APSL and Export Controls

[John Hasler <john@dhh.gt.org>]

Chip Salzenberg writes:
> We assumed that the export clause was a no-op, given that Apple is a US
> corporation.

Consider this scenario: I print out a piece of "export restricted" APSL
source code, fly to Germany with it, and give it to Marcus.  According to
the US courts, I have done nothing illegal.  Yet, if I remember the export
clause correctly, I have violated my license.

I wrote:
> I also find it a bit worrisome that you could misjudge such an
> obviously non-free license.

Chip Salzenberg writes:
> Besides, hindsight is 20/20 -- if the export clause is so 'obviously' an
> OSD violation, why is it only now a subject of public debate?

I wasn't referring to the export clause.

> We're hackers, not lawyers.  (But we are looking to get a lawyer involved
> from now on.)

Excellent.
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