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

On 29 Jul 1997, Mark Eichin wrote:

> 
> > 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.
> 
> Why exactly do you believe this? Nothing in the ITAR or EAR makes this
> claim.  MIT places a very open redistribution license on Kerberos
> (Kerberos would in fact qualify as free software) but adds,
> *independent* of the license, a warning that the *user* may need to be
> aware of the restrictions imposed by the *US government* [not by MIT.]
> 
> They *certainly* don't invalidate the copyright -- all that does is
> identify the author -- they simply add additional restrictions on the
> *license* and it's *very* important to remember that copyright and
> license are totally different things.

Well, yes, and no. The GPL is often considered equivalent to the copyright
although I admit that they are not the same thing. On the other hand the
License draws is authority from the copyright. The copyright does more
than identify the author (even under the GPL). It is the copyright that
gives the author the right to require a License for the use of that
copyright material. The GPL, and others like it, is simply a release by
the author of those rights that a copyright normaly reserves for him/her.

The fact that MIT felt compelled to issue their warning is an admission
that their license is not the only controlling document relevant to that
particular piece of software. They recognise that the US laws also
determine the distributablility of the program.

Luck,

Dwarf
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