Hi Aiet, On Sun, Apr 10, 2005 at 01:50:18PM +0400, Aiet Kolkhi wrote: > > CL> Sun shares the copyright for every contribution that goes into the > CL> Source > ->> if a patch is accepted, Sun is involved directly. > > This is true. > > CL> One additional problem with the patch (issue 33466) is (from my > CL> understanding, from sb's comment) is that it is not a language > CL> thing, but a customization especially suited for people in NK (as > CL> this charset is not used anywhere else). > > Like it was said at the beginning, the law targets country and not > people. And there are indeed people from NK living abroad.
No, it doesn't only touch the country. See this Eula refering to the regulations: http://www.csd.toshiba.com/cgi-bin/tais/eula.jsp ,---- | Export Control Terms | | [..]NO SOFTWARE FROM THIS SERVER MAY BE DOWNLOADED OR OTHERWISE EXPORTED | OR RE-EXPORTED (A) INTO (OR TO A NATIONAL OR RESIDENT OF) CUBA, IRAQ, | LIBYA, SUDAN, NORTH KOREA, IRAN, SYRIA, OR ANY OTHER COUNTRY TO WHICH | THE UNITED STATES HAS EMBARGOED GOODS [...] `---- So it touches everyone living in NK (resident of) and everyone whose nationality is NK (a national of) - no matter where they live. So it /IS/ about the people as well. > CL> This ist what it makes hard to explain that this addition is not > CL> intended to support NK ("but it only a language"). > > I think 'support' is a very general term here. With the same attitude, > publishing a travel book or dictionary about NK and its language (be > it language or dialect), can also be seen as supporting NK. The law > forbids the _export_ of a product, which I don't see any reason has > anything to do with adding support to a product. I don't know all the laws regarding this subject.,,, This explicit regulation refers to the export, but this doesn't mean that there arent other regulations that control the support itself. > > It if was only language, this will/would have worked. I seems > > everybody seems to get upset without knowing about the issue. It > > lasted till today until someone posted a link to the issue. > > I think Kim posted a link about the issue from the very beginning, > which started all the discussion. That was to the l10n list probably. ciao Christian -- NP: nichts --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]