At Sat, 8 Nov 2008 05:56:39 +0100,
Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> 
> >  (In regards to whether it is just a philosophical checkbox, I tend to 
> >think so.  If a company makes a product based on an open-source project 
> >and sells it to Cuba from the US, the company may be punished 
> >regardless what its license says.)
> 
> The Cuban government would not hardly buy an american commercial 
> distillation of a FLOSS software product. Rather they would buy know-how 
> on creating their own derivative distribution based directly on Debian, 
> which is completely legal.

  Sure.  That is (almost) my point.  So whether the license wants to
protect the original company like the Squeak License does, they can
get the know-how.

-- Yoshiki
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