On 28 April 2010 12:50, David Bateman <[email protected]> wrote:
> I'm not a lawyer, but have dealt with a number of them for this type of
> issue, so take what I say with a grain of salt. My understand is that your
> contribution as a single piece would be considered as being covered under
> the rules of the country in which you reside. So if you give code to
> Octave-forge even though you are in the US, as you are resident in Ireland
> this would be a "deemed export" between Ireland and the US and covered by
> Irish law (so the EC directive 346/2006 and whatever additional text Ireland
> adds)
>
> Octave-forge in its entirety would be considered as  a US product even
> though some of its constituent parts are from elsewhere and so exporting
> octave-forge in its entirety to Cuba would be illegal even by you. However,
> nothing could stop you giving your contribution that is covered under Irish
> rules to a Cuban, and it'd be up to the Cuban to get the rest of
> octave-forge however they could.
>
Thank you, that cleared it up for me.

Carnë

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