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On Fri, 20 Jun 2003, Brett Glass wrote:

> At 11:47 AM 6/20/2003, Narvi wrote:
>
> >I don't think section seven (export control) should appear in a truly free
> >licence.
>
> Why not? It's just a specific instance of the general disclaimer of
> liability found in many licenses, including the BSD and MIT licenses.
>

Because without it, a random person outside the US receiving it would
technicaly (ignoring cruise missle diplomacy) not be bound by US export
regulations. By using code under this licence, it is no longer (as far as
that and derived code is concerned) no longer the case.

Technicly you would need to check that each and every case of download of
such code did not come from teh 7 "terrrist" countries or from companies /
persons on the prohibited parties list. This is a non-trivial overhead.

> --Brett
>