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US software law (was Re: Packaging spice and xwave)

> When I asked why it was already available
> for anonymous FTP, they told me that I should only be concerned with my
> following the license, not with what others were doing with the program,
> At that time they had a list of prohibited countries.

Hi Bruce,

Here's something that might be interesting re. licensing --- unfortunately it 
only applies to the US, but it might give us a stick to beat people into 
cleaning up some of the silliness in licences:

  ftp://koobera.math.uic.edu/www/softwarelaw.html

I quote:
> Once you've legally downloaded a program, you can compile it. You can run it.
> You can modify it. You can distribute your patches for other people to use.
> If you think you need a license from the copyright holder, you've been
> bamboozled by Microsoft. As long as you're not distributing the software,
> you have nothing to worry about. 

This also explains why Dan Bernstein doesn't bother with licences in his 
software.

Cheers, Phil. 



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