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Re: US versions of Netscape now available
From: IN%"[email protected]" 20-JUL-1996 09:00:37.83
>Alex de Joode wrote:
>> I would like to know what Netscape's position on the above mentioned
>> scenario is .. (Uploading "possibly" received 128 bit binaries to
>> official netscape mirrors outside the US, that is) (guess why ...)
>I guess I should look again, but I *thought* our licenses explicitly
>excepted use of "US-Only" software (defined in the license) from the
>standard exclusions. I think the attys lifted some of the definitions
>straight from ITAR and may have quoted 22USC. Maybe we screwed
>up and got the wrong license in the beta and missed the check.
>I don't know. I'll look. *sigh*
BTW, is the license essentially copyright-based? If so, you're going
to have trouble using it in a country that you can't legally sell/give away
with limits the stuff to; it is assumed that you aren't losing anything. I
may be wrong, of course, but that's my understanding of how penalties, etcetera
are determined under copyright law.
-Allen