Re: [Devel] Re: Re: [Fonts]Another approach to text in X

[Vadim Plessky]

On Tuesday 29 January 2002 20:12, David Smith wrote:
|   The problem unfortunately, is not with the legal people. Without such
| statements the US Government will not allow export of certain technologies.
| While I agree with your comments it will require a change of heart in the
| US congress to change these restrictions. This is unfortunately unlikely at
| present.
|

I see.

But, on the other hand, there is no requirement to "ship" ST from US.
Sun Microsystems had some partners and even Joint Venture in Russia which in 
fact allowed it to ship 128-bit encryption software outside US just to 
overcome this limitation.
ST is not 128-bit encryption software, so I doubt such excessive steps are 
necessary. may be, clause can be just excluded from final BSD+ license, so 
all Linux distributions will have no constrains over incorporating ST.


|   David
|
|   -----Original Message-----
|   From: Vadim Plessky [mailto:address@hidden
|   Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2002 1:45 PM
|   To: address@hidden; Alexander Gelfenbain; Markus Kuhn
|   Cc: address@hidden
|   Subject: [Devel] Re: Re: [Fonts]Another approach to text in X
|
|   On Wednesday 23 January 2002 04:11, Alexander Gelfenbain wrote:
|   |   I don't really know. This clause obviously came from our legal
|   | department.
|   |
|   |   AG
|
|   well, from my experience working for one distribution company in Russia:
|    I (as a representative of that company) always was signing similar
| clauses ("equipment we sold to you will not be used in nuclear plants, or
| for developemtn weapons, etc.") together with yearly distribution contract.
| HP (Hewlett-Packard) was in particular very causious with this, as well as
| SGI. Probably, Sun (and all other US-based companies) has similar
| restriction, and this is caused by US origin of the company.
|   I also know that one of IBM partners here (in Russia) sold high-end
| RS/6000 system to nuclear research labaratory, and IBM had finally to pay
| penalties in US because of this deal.
|
|   I believe all this is a heavy heritage of the Cold War, and if we want to
|   move to the new world, where all people live in peace and in friendship,
| we need to stop putting such restriction on software, hardware, facilities,
| etc. So, you should talk to legal people and get off these words out of
| final software release. Otherwise, it can't be used in Open-Source
| projects.
|

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