Unless built outside the USA like Ruby is.
 

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From: squeak-dev-bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org
[mailto:squeak-dev-bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org] On Behalf Of
Marcin Tustin
Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2004 9:16 AM
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Subject: Re: project "squeak" on sourceforge.net

On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 09:00:55AM -0700, Tim Rowledge wrote:
> Pupeno <pupeno at pupeno.com> wrote:
> 
> > Just my humble opinion. I think Squeak is Open Source, but not Free
Software, 
> > to be Free Software you have to be, well, Free and give every human
being the 
> > same freedom, and, AFAIK, Cuba children can't use Squeak.
> Seems a quite reasonable distinction to make _except_ US Federal law
> imposes the export condition (in substantially similar meaning) on any
> software provided from the US. AIUI it simply doesn't matter what it
> says in the FooFreeLicense, the law trumps it. Certainly to the extent
> that if you violate it and the feds notice you will get a oneway
ticket
> to gitmo bay. OK, they probably won't do that often but you get my
> drift.
> 
> Basically you can write a license that says anything you want but The
> Law can/will override it. Politicians are like that.

    That's great. Thanks for thinking about all the people who live
outside
the USA




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