On Wed, Mar 15, 2006 at 03:34:07PM +0000, Benjamin A'Lee wrote: > On Wed, 2006-03-15 at 12:22 +0100, Henning Makholm wrote: > > Scripsit Jesse van den Kieboom <jesse@icecrew.nl> > > > My situation is as follows. The application itself is GPL licenced, but > > > some of the code has been taken from the lambdamoo server. The lambdamoo > > > source is copyrighted with the following copyright: > > > Copyright (c) 1992, 1995, 1996 Xerox Corporation. All rights > > > reserved. > > ... > > > Any distribution of this software or derivative works must comply > > > with all applicable United States export control laws. > > This is a non-free condition. > Surely it'd only be non-free if it said "must comply with United States > export control laws"? Outside the US, US export laws are not > applicable, so the condition doesn't apply. Or am I missing something? Compliance with the law should not be a condition of the license. The law already has its own penalties for non-compliance; users shouldn't have to worry about copyright holders of the software they're using adding to those. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. vorlon@debian.org http://www.debian.org/
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