Re: Wassenaar and Free Software (FSF statement)

1998-12-18 Thread Ralf S. Engelschall
On Fri, Dec 18, 1998, Magnus Stenman wrote: > [...various hints...] Thanks for the various hints on the Wassenaar state. I'll now include the following entry in the mod_ssl FAQ: | First, let us explain what Wassenaar and it's Arrangement on | Export Controls for Conventional Arms and Dual-Use

Re: Wassenaar and Free Software (FSF statement)

1998-12-18 Thread Magnus Stenman
look at the GnuPG home page: http://www.d.shuttle.de/isil/gnupg/gsn.html Ralf S. Engelschall wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 18, 1998, Michael Salmon wrote: > > >[...] > > The Wassenaar agreement has it's own definition of PD that is more in > > line with the common view than the legal view. > > Oh, in

Re: Wassenaar and Free Software (FSF statement)

1998-12-18 Thread Mads Toftum
Ralf S. Engelschall wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 18, 1998, Michael Salmon wrote: > > >[...] > > The Wassenaar agreement has it's own definition of PD that is more in > > line with the common view than the legal view. > > Oh, interesting. And where is this definition written down? Any URLs at hand? >

Re: Wassenaar and Free Software (FSF statement)

1998-12-18 Thread Niels Poppe
You might want to look at http://www.fitug.de/news/wa/index.html which is a html conversion of the documents at www.wassenaar.org "Ralf S. Engelschall" wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 18, 1998, Michael Salmon wrote: > > >[...] > > The Wassenaar agreement has it's own definition of PD that is more in >

Re: Wassenaar and Free Software (FSF statement)

1998-12-18 Thread Ralf S. Engelschall
On Fri, Dec 18, 1998, Michael Salmon wrote: >[...] > The Wassenaar agreement has it's own definition of PD that is more in > line with the common view than the legal view. Oh, interesting. And where is this definition written down? Any URLs at hand? I ask because I want to add information to t

Re: Wassenaar and Free Software (FSF statement)

1998-12-18 Thread Michael Salmon
+- 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 al

RE: Wassenaar and Free Software (FSF statement)

1998-12-18 Thread Dave Paris
[...] > 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 some

Wassenaar and Free Software (FSF statement)

1998-12-18 Thread Ralf S. Engelschall
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 wi