Re: [Resolution of] Re: Maxima: Difficult US export restriction issue

2003-05-20 Thread Branden Robinson
On Tue, May 20, 2003 at 01:14:44PM +1200, Adam Warner wrote:
 Dave Turner, the FSF's ``GPL Compliance Engineer'' suggests including
 the DOE text in the SAME FILE as the GPL will be sufficient to honour
 the DOE's requirement while also not modifying the GPL. The text should
 note that it is not part of the licence.

Thanks a lot for researching and getting a resolution on this that the
FSF is happy with.  This issue is likely to come up again.

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Re: [Resolution of] Re: Maxima: Difficult US export restriction issue

2003-05-20 Thread Adam Warner
On Tue, 2003-05-20 at 19:42, Branden Robinson wrote:
 On Tue, May 20, 2003 at 01:14:44PM +1200, Adam Warner wrote:
  Dave Turner, the FSF's ``GPL Compliance Engineer'' suggests including
  the DOE text in the SAME FILE as the GPL will be sufficient to honour
  the DOE's requirement while also not modifying the GPL. The text should
  note that it is not part of the licence.
 
 Thanks a lot for researching and getting a resolution on this that the
 FSF is happy with.  This issue is likely to come up again.

Thanks Branden! As James Amundson (the upstream maintainer) is also
happy with the outcome I've just filed bug #193976:
http://bugs.debian.org/193976

Regards,
Adam



[Resolution of] Re: Maxima: Difficult US export restriction issue

2003-05-19 Thread Adam Warner
Good news everyone,

Dave Turner, the FSF's ``GPL Compliance Engineer'' suggests including
the DOE text in the SAME FILE as the GPL will be sufficient to honour
the DOE's requirement while also not modifying the GPL. The text should
note that it is not part of the licence.

Below is my suggested replacement for /usr/share/doc/maxima/copyright.
/usr/share/doc/maxima/COPYING1 should be removed

Regards,
Adam

-- /usr/share/doc/maxima/copyright --

Maxima is dedicated to the memory of William F. Schelter. On 6 October
1998 William F. Schelter was formally notified that he could distribute
DOE-MACSYMA upon terms of his choosing, in particular the GNU General
Public License: http://www.ma.utexas.edu/users/wfs/maxima-doe-auth.gif
Schelter proceed to distribute derived works under the GPL.

In the formal notification a request was made that a paragraph should
be included in the GPL and should accompany other modifications,
enhancements or derivative works of your program. This paragraph is
transcribed below in honor of that request. Like the preamble it does
not form part of the license.

Distribution of such derivative works is subject to the U.S. Export
Administration Regulations (Title 15 CFR 768-799), which implements the
Export Administration Act of 1979, as amended, and/or the International
Traffic in Arms Regulations, of 12-6-84, (Title 22 CFR 121-130), which
implements the Arms Export Control Act (22 U.S.C. 2728) and may require
license for export.

GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE
   Version 2, June 1991

 Copyright (C) 1989, 1991 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
   59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307  USA
 Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies
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