On Mon, 22 Nov 1993, kpj@sics.se wrote:
| It isn't very smart asking him in a public forum, especially one that is | pretty known to be monitored by at least some government agents. No | matter what his opinion is, he's going to have to say "No." It is ILLEGAL | for him to export it and you just basically stood up and yelled "Fire!" | to every Fed on the list.
Naturally. I expect him to refuse. My whole question is whether it is valid to use Copyleft on code which is not freely copyable over national boundaries.
It is not his fault that he can't give it to you. He's made it freely available. If national boundaries interfere and paranoid US laws don't let him, I don't think you can blame HIM for that. (*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*) | Al Billings aka Grendel Grettisson | "You are, each one, a priest, | | mimir@u.washington.edu | Just for yourself." | | Sysop of The Sacred Grove (206)322-5450 | | | Admin for Troth-L, The Asatru E-Mail List | -Noble Drew Ali- | (*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)