[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > But the GPL does say: if one person cannot receive and redistribute, no one > can, at least within a single country.
I didn't see anyone else respond to this -- did I miss something? Is this your reference? (from Version 2, June 1991) <quote> 8. If the distribution and/or use of the Program is restricted in certain countries either by patents or by copyrighted interfaces, the original copyright holder who places the Program under this License may add an explicit geographical distribution limitation excluding those countries, so that distribution is permitted only in or among countries not thus excluded. In such case, this License incorporates the limitation as if written in the body of this License. </quote> I guess it could be interpreted as you say, but really it seems like your statement almost reverses the meaning. If one person in a country cannot receive and distribute for some reason other than "by patents or by copyrighted interfaces" (say because they are restricted as a felon), there does not appear to be a restriction on anyone else in that country. Am I missing something? Randy Kramer -- license-discuss archive is at http://crynwr.com/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?3