This issue appears in several licenses in one various form or another. Per Michael Fötsch from [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
This specific export restriction language does not render the license non-free. The wording originally comes from the Intel Open Source License, which is a free license. On Jan 26, 2008 2:38 PM, Chris Andrew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Lee, > > Thanks for picking this one up. It's good to put this one to bed. > > Many thanks, > > Chris. > > > On 26/01/2008, Lee McCafferty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I took a look at Main kernel-wf - kz, and the only package left is > > krb5. This was marked as unclear because its copyright contained the > > following passage: > > > > Export of this software from the United States of America may require > > a specific license from the United States Government. It is the > > responsibility of any person or organization contemplating export to > > obtain such a license before exporting. > > > > This issue was discussed on the list a while ago and I believe that the > > conclusion was that such a passage does not nullify the freedom of the > > software. This has to do with laws concerning cryptographic software and > > is therefore not a restriction imposed by the copyright holder, but by the > > laws of certain sovereign nations (if I understood correctly). To cut a long > > story short, I have marked this as free, which completes that section. > > > > Lee > > > > On Sat, 2008-01-26 at 08:29 +0000, Chris Andrew wrote: > > > Hi, everybody. > > > > > > I've just updated the Package Section Summary > > > > > > http://wiki.gnewsense.org/Main/PackagesInMain > > > > > > Work seems to have stopped, which is a little worrying, as we are so > > > near our goal. > > > > > > I know people have many other pressures on their time, but any help > > > you can offer would be great. > > > > > > Particularly striking is Main kernel-wf- kz which hasn't been touched > > > for 126 days, as it seems that only one licence is preventing it from > > > being free'd. > > > > > > I'll be doing the stats as usual, tomorrow evening. In the mean time, > > > please help if you can. > > > > > > Many thanks, > > > > > > Chris. > > > > > > > > > > -- > Reasons why you may want to try GNU/Linux: > > http://www.getgnulinux.org/ > > A great GNU/Linux distro: > > http://wiki.gnewsense.org/ > > > _______________________________________________ > > gNewSense-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnewsense-users >
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