Hello,
I am interested in packaging nqthm, a public version of the Boyer-Moore
theorem prover. It is distributed under the GPL. However, it has the
export restriction quoted at the end. Is it possible to distribute it ?
If it is, should the interested users living in the listed countries be
Hello,
What exactly must be done when trying to package an academic piece of
software, which typically has no copyright but mentions such as :
- The program is provided as is. There is no warranty.
- may be used without restriction
- available to everyone, with no restrictions (and
Under U. S. law, Nqthm-1992 may be legally exported from the U. S. to
any country except as follows:
But of course, it would create a problem for US Debian mirrors, which
probably couldn't carry it. I had heard that Debian was considering
eliminating Non-US, but this suggests there's
I think that software that falls under the definition of publically
available--I can go dig up a citation if you really care--can be
exported almost anywhere or at least sufficiently almost anywhere that
we ignore the problem. The only exception to this in the EAR
regulations at all seems to be
Sam Hartman wrote:
Russell == Russell Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Russell Nahhh. I'm just reading Bruce's commentary to you. He
Russell edited Debian's members words into the DFSG. Do you
Russell think he was wrong about the intent of the
Russell no-discrimination
On Monday 03 February 2003 11:35, Antoine Mathys wrote:
Hello,
What exactly must be done when trying to package an academic piece of
software, which typically has no copyright but mentions such as :
- The program is provided as is. There is no warranty.
- may be used without
may be used without restriction does not give you the right to distribute or
modify. Use clauses only govern actual use.
I guess the bottom line is this software is probably not to be treated as free
software unless/until the author says it is. Rather annoying I know.
Ok. Asking for
What IS the real difference between a licence and a copyright?
I am a bit confused at this point, especially because I hear the
copyright is what gives (or doesn't) give you freedom to use, modify,
distribute, etc.
On the other hand, I found that in a package I am interested in (it 's
On Monday 03 February 2003 20:13, you wrote:
On Monday 03 February 2003 07:46 pm, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
On Monday 03 February 2003 11:35, Antoine Mathys wrote:
- The program is provided as is. There is no warranty.
- may be used without restriction
- available to
On Monday 03 February 2003 20:06, Antoine Mathys wrote:
may be used without restriction does not give you the right to
distribute or modify. Use clauses only govern actual use.
I guess the bottom line is this software is probably not to be treated as
free software unless/until the author
On Monday 03 February 2003 08:31 pm, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
On Monday 03 February 2003 20:13, Terry Hancock wrote:
But available to everyone, with no restrictions does give you distribute
and modify, since non-modification is clearly a restriction.
available gives you the right to have
On Monday 03 February 2003 20:21, Antoine Mathys wrote:
What IS the real difference between a licence and a copyright?
I am a bit confused at this point, especially because I hear the
copyright is what gives (or doesn't) give you freedom to use, modify,
distribute, etc.
the license is the
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