On Mon, 2011-06-20 at 21:57 -0400, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote: > On 06/20/2011 08:13 PM, Jean Hollis Weber wrote: > > On Mon, 2011-06-20 at 21:08 +0000, toki wrote: > >> On 19/06/2011 23:02, Jean Hollis Weber wrote: > >> > >>> Possibly relevant information: because ODFAuthors as an organisation has > >> no legal standing, > >> > >> FWIW, Under US Law, ODFAuthors is an unincorporated non profit > >> organization. A separate legal entity from _Friends of Open Document, > >> Inc_. > >> > >> Precisely what rights that gives it, depends upon the state in which it > >> does business. > > > > Hmm, interesting. What constitutes "doing business" in a state? Or in > > the USA? > > I can only guess..... Probably things such as selling a book. Apart > from that, probably not much. > > > Although a few contributors live in the USA, most of ODFAuthors > > membership, and the server on which its website is hosted, are located > > outside the USA. > Because I live in the USA, I am bound by the laws of the USA when I > post... You know, so if I knew things that the USA did not allow out of > the country, I could not post them. I think that cryptography used to be > an example, not sure if it still is.
Some of the export rules have been relaxed on cryptography, but I do not know the current rules. On area we Yanks can get into trouble is with software patents and copyrights. It is a problem with audio and video codecs and whether you can legally download some you might find on the web. I have seen this warning with several non-US Linux distros. > Andrew Pitonyak > My Macro Document: http://www.pitonyak.org/AndrewMacro.odt > Info: http://www.pitonyak.org/oo.php > > -- Jay Lozier [email protected] -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/documentation/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
