Re: ITP: ILU
Torsten Landschoff <t.landschoff@gmx.net> writes:
> On Mon, Jun 21, 1999 at 07:16:08PM +0200, Bart Schuller wrote:
>
> > Before you do that, I seem to remember that the license for ILU had been
> > cleared up a couple of months ago. Looking at
> > ftp://ftp.parc.xerox.com/pub/ilu/ilu.html
> > I can't see why it shouldn't go in main.
>
> Quoting /usr/doc/ilu/copyright:
>
> Any distribution of this software, a modified version thereof, or a
> derivative work must comply with all applicable United States export
> control laws.
So? We have to comply with US export laws anyways. If somebody else
wants to break those laws, it doesn't come back at us - they just lose
their right to use/distribute the software.
> We can't ensure this so this has to go into non-free :(
>
> Silly lawyers.
It should go back into main.
Replies to debian-legal, please.
Cheers,
- Jim
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