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On Wednesday August 25 2004 13:00, 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.

I see, I didn't know about it, but even then, the fact that USA prohibits 
exporting Squeak from USA to Cuba, it doesn't mean that the license must 
aprove it (that is, if I make some software under the same license as 
Squeak's, here in Argentina,I still wouldn't be able to send it to Cuba, even 
when those USA laws doesn't apply to me).
Here RMS explains it: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html
"Sometimes government export control regulations and trade sanctions can 
constrain your freedom to distribute copies of programs internationally. 
Software developers do not have the power to eliminate or override these 
restrictions, but what they can and must do is refuse to impose them as 
conditions of use of the program. In this way, the restrictions will not 
affect activities and people outside the jurisdictions of these governments."
Thanks.

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Pupeno: pupeno at pupeno.com - http://www.pupeno.com
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