[discuss] Exporting OpenOffice to IRAN

2006-02-16 Thread Charles-H.Schulz
Hi, we have a Persian Native-Language community localizing OOo in Farsi. (http://fa.openoffice.org) Although asking your legal counsel is a good idea, you should download their binaries and source and work on it. You won't have any problem as the builds come from Iran. Best Regards, Charles-H.

Re: [discuss] Exporting OpenOffice to IRAN

2006-02-15 Thread Chris
Just a thought or two here.. The licence is Open and allows no embargo. By your address you are in France and subject to French Law not Bleeding American If thats the case it would be illeagal under EU law Not to supply it as the EU have no embargos YET.. It would also be illegal under

Re: [discuss] Exporting OpenOffice to IRAN

2006-02-14 Thread Paul
I don't know about anyone else on this list, but I would suggest that these questions are best directed to your legal counsel (or your own countries trade office). My PERSONAL opinion is that OOo is countryless, not bounded by USA laws and therefore _it should_ be ok... but as before - get

Re: [discuss] Exporting OpenOffice to IRAN

2006-02-14 Thread Jonathon Blake
YoYo wrote: Is OpenOffice american? or is it 'countryfree'? It is developed and run by an American corporation. [Sun.] Does it really have to abide by american laws? Only in the us. Is exporting OpenOffice (or other opensource software) to IRAN restricted in any way? In theory, OOo may

Re: [discuss] Exporting OpenOffice to IRAN

2006-02-14 Thread Alexandro Colorado
As far as the GPL is concern they specify that this software is not bounded to any country. OpenOffice.org is German but since Sun bought the development it might be considered american. However Licensing it through LGPL makes it countryless. On Tue, 14 Feb 2006 12:20:13 -0600, Paul

Re: [discuss] Exporting OpenOffice to IRAN

2006-02-14 Thread Alexandro Colorado
Just on a side note OpenOffice.org is very popular in Cuba too. :) On Tue, 14 Feb 2006 13:40:51 -0600, Jonathon Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: YoYo wrote: Is OpenOffice american? or is it 'countryfree'? It is developed and run by an American corporation. [Sun.] Does it really have to

Re: [discuss] Exporting OpenOffice to IRAN

2006-02-14 Thread Nicu Buculei
Alexandro Colorado wrote: Just on a side note OpenOffice.org is very popular in Cuba too. :) And we know about it also being used in North Korea -- nicu my OpenOffice.org pages: http://ooo.nicubunu.ro Open Clip Art Library: http://www.openclipart.org