Quoting Jim Jagielski (j...@jimjag.com): > BTW: How is this different from, say, the US export control provisions? > In both cases, a codebase is encumbered by external, and "localized" > restrictions. So does this mean that software distributed out of > the US, no matter the OSI license, isn't "really" open source?
During the period that the RSA algorithm was encumbered by a (somewhat weak and potentially challengable) patent in USA jurisdictions, mod_ssl was widely considered to effectively not be open source when deployed in the USA, yes. -- Rick Moen There was an old man Said with a laugh, "I rick@linuxmafia From Peru, whose lim'ricks all Cut them in half, the pay is .com Looked like haiku. He Much better for two." McQ! (4x80) --Emmet O'Brien _______________________________________________ License-discuss mailing list License-discuss@opensource.org http://projects.opensource.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/license-discuss