Glenn McGrath <glenn.l.mcgr...@gmail.com> writes: > Ok, thanks, i think i see; there is layer of abstraction. > > The country can not requiring the transfer of source code, > The country can allow a person to require the transfer of source code.
Well, if you broaden “a person” to include any entity *except* a state, then yes. In other words: Think like a transnational corporation lobbying the TPP negotiators, and this distinction makes much more sense. Corporations have no interest in treaties that will restrict them in any way; so the TPP is not designed to have that effect. Corporations are not parties to the treaty; states are. The wording is specifically that *parties to the treaty* (which includes no corporation) are restricted in the terms they can enforce. Corporations, meanwhile, can continue restricting people as much as they could before. > I imagine high priced lawyers will disagree. That is no doubt true. -- \ “The future always arrives too fast, and in the wrong order.” | `\ —Alvin Toffler | _o__) | Ben Finney