Re: Exporting Issues related with US laws

2007-08-20 Thread Pat
Interesting that fingerprint matching algorithms should fall into this category as well. Don't listen to a word I say ;) I would say that as a UK citizen what he does with the software one he reaches the UK should not be an issue as long as it is within the UK's laws (says one member of the jury)

us crypto export regulations

2007-08-14 Thread Pat
How would the US export restrictions be applicable to a custom debian cdrom? The cdrom would have no additional crypto functionality than what is already available in debian and there would be no changes to the source code, so how would it apply regarding distributing isos? How are these export

Re: us crypto export regulations

2007-08-14 Thread Pat
who decide to mirror Debian being hauled off to jail. On 8/14/07, Michael Poole [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Pat writes: How would the US export restrictions be applicable to a custom debian cdrom? The cdrom would have no additional crypto functionality than what is already available

Re: Open Compatibility License (was: Re: 2 questions about leocad)

2000-09-24 Thread Pat Mahoney
On Fri, Sep 22, 2000 at 11:44:06PM -0500, David Starner wrote: On Fri, Sep 22, 2000 at 10:12:04PM -0500, Pat Mahoney wrote: The author (of leocad) asked me if the GPL required a program to be GPL'd if it used, say, one line of code from a GPL'd program. I told him I wasn't sure, but I seem

Open Compatibility License (was: Re: 2 questions about leocad)

2000-09-22 Thread Pat Mahoney
On Sun, Sep 17, 2000 at 04:20:47PM -0500, Pat Mahoney wrote: 2) The program itself is probably going to be released under the Open Compatibility License http://www.gizmodrome.com/ocl_1_0_text.htm. I had not heard of this before, and a search of debian-legal turned up nothing. The FSF says

2 questions about leocad

2000-09-17 Thread Pat Mahoney
but simply offering the source (through apt or whatever) satisfy this condition? I appreciate any comments... -- Pat Mahoney [EMAIL PROTECTED] But maybe good is more than the absence of bad. -- Hobbes in Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson