+----- On Fri, 18 Dec 1998 12:53:04 +0100, "Ralf S. Engelschall" writes:
|
| I've currently seen the following statement on http://www.gnu.org/home.html:
|
| ``New information regarding the Wassenaar agreement indicates that the
| information we posted here on the 11th of December was a false alarm. An
| attentive reader pointed out to us that The Wassenaar agreement will not be
| applied to free software.''
|
| Although I've read the Wassenaar agreement stuff last week, I've only
| recognized that they talk about "software in the public domain". And that
| can be interpreted differently, i.e. PD software is free software, but not
| all types of free software is PD. So the question is: Has somebody already
| more or background information why the FSF came to the above conclusion?
| Just from reading the Wassenaar stuff I still cannot see why it shouldn't
| apply to free software in general. Or did I overlooked something essential?
The Wassenaar agreement has it's own definition of PD that is more in
line with the common view than the legal view.
/Michael
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