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Re: next approach: new non-free/contrib policy



On Tue, 29 Jul 1997, Clint Adams wrote:

> > My point was based on the fact that copyright law is determined in the US
> > by the courts and their interpretation of such restrictive laws that the
> > congress may see fit to pass. In other countries (like France) these
> > copyright issues are determined in much the same fashion, although the
> 
> I don't believe that export restrictions are a copyright issue.
> 
They most certainly are when they invalidate a copyright. The current
export restrictions on encryption make it impossible to assign a "Free"
copyright/license to those pieces of software that fall under the export
restrictions.

Copyrights and licenses are legal fictions like patents and export
restrictions and we can discuss the legal ramifications of their
interconnectedness (or non-connectedness) and even with legal assistance
will not likely resolve this without a court appearance. I understand your
point of view and would like to be more idealistic and less pragmatic when
discussing these kinds of issues. I guess I'm just getting old ;-)

Luck,

Dwarf
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