Packaging Squeak for Debian GNU/Linux

Joshua Channing Gargus schwa at cc.gatech.edu
Wed May 23 21:00:56 UTC 2001


On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 09:07:00PM +0200, Andreas Kuckartz wrote:
> > I don't specifically know about the legality of shipping Free software to
> > Cuba, but for the reason given above, I would suspect that Software
> Freedom
> > would take a backseat to the ideological motives of those who want to
> > contain the Cuban "threat".
> 
> A license prohibiting the export to Cuba or other countries which are
> currently not liked by the US Government is probably not enforceable here in
> Germany. 

Unless they've signed an intellectual property treaty that would make such
clauses originating in the USA enforceable in Germany, and vice versa.  I'm
now out of my depth; I don't know if such a treaty has in fact been signed.

I'm going to duck out of this thread now, since IANAL.

Cheers,
Joshua



> Legally speaking Squeak can be exported to Cuba from here. Sure,
> the US Government might try to use warships etc. to prevent this.
> 
> (I might even think about removing the void paragraph in the license and
> distributing Squeak with the modified license. What could Apple do? ;-)
> 
> Andreas
> (not a lawyer)
> 





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