Dennis Clark: > I would be very interested to know if any of you have any thoughts about the > TPP provisions that impact software distribution, particularly source code > redistribution obligations: > http://www.keionline.org/node/2363
I asked someone else whose legal opinion I respect about this. (I don't have permission to share his name, so I won't do that here.) He said that the view of that article is misleading; instead, this provision precludes conditioning territorial market access on mandatory source code disclosure. In other words, as I understand it, a country can't require that ALL software from outside provide the source code to just that country. If *that* is the correct interpretation then I'm fine with this text; I don't see that as restraining trade or FLOSS. That said, if that interpretation is wrong, please let me & others know. --- David A. Wheeler _______________________________________________ Spdx-legal mailing list Spdx-legal@lists.spdx.org https://lists.spdx.org/mailman/listinfo/spdx-legal
