Quoting Dan Brosemer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> On Tue, Dec 14, 1999 at 02:19:35PM +0000, David Wright wrote:
> > Quoting Colin Watson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Glen S Mehn) wrote:
> > If ssh were non-free, and I were to download it from a site in the US,
> > then I would've broken the law, wouldn't I? Whereas, because it's non-US,
> > I can't find it on any US site, so I can't accidently break the law.
> > Right?
>
> Not quite. The non-free section is non-free as in speech, not beer, so you
> don't have to buy a license for it.
Although this thread had got onto licensing, that wasn't my point.
But Colin has explained what he meant.
> However, you are breaking the law if you attempt to:
>
> 1. Sell it (ssh1)
> 2. Make money with it in any way, no matter how indirectly (like
> remote-admining a system) (ssh2)
> 3. Export it _from_ the US to a country other than Canada or export it
> _from_ Canada to a country other than the US if the original source was
> inside the US.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
I don't think I'd like to debate this point with US immigration.
If I take linux on a laptop to the US, all the non-US stuff will
be coming off it first, whatever its original source.
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