Re: ITP: ILU

To: debian-legal@lists.debian.org
Cc: Torsten Landschoff <t.landschoff@gmx.net>, Bart Schuller <schuller@lunatech.com>
Subject: Re: ITP: ILU
From: Henning Makholm <henning@makholm.net>
Date: 22 Jun 1999 11:45:42 +0200
Message-id: <[🔎] yahiu8gmuux.fsf@ask.diku.dk>
In-reply-to: Jim Pick's message of 21 Jun 1999 19:45:10 -0700
References: <14181.14719.906496.326388@bolero> <Pine.LNX.3.96.990614204433.1378B-100000@asterix.gallien> <19990621180104.A826@wormhole.galaxy> <19990621191608.A14171@tanglefoot.lunatech.com> <19990621193005.I1651@wormhole.galaxy> <[🔎] 87iu8ht0ll.fsf@pepper.jimpick.com>

Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com> writes:

> > 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.

I don't. A license that only gives me permission to modify and
distribute software if I agree to be bound by the laws of some
arbitrary foreign country, is not free.

Would you call a license free if it required you to comply with, say
Iraqi or Chinese law before you had permission to modify & distribute?

-- 
Henning Makholm

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