Re: USA export restrictions and GPL - how can they co-exist?

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Steve Searle wrote:
> Around 09:07pm on Friday, August 10, 2007 (UK time), Geoffrey Leach
scrawled:
>
>> IMHO, you've got it backwards.  However you might read the GPL, it
>> would be ill-advised to send a disto (or other restricted stuff) to
>> Cuba. I very much doubt that the Feds would accept a reading of the GPL
>> to let you off the hook.
>
> I assume your warning was only meant for those living under the
> jusristriction of "the Feds".
>
> Would this restriction also mean a US citizen couldn't take a laptop
> running Fedora to Cuba, or even more interestingly does that mean any of
> your armed forces who may use Fedora, can't when they are serving in
> Iraq?
>
> Steve
>
Steve,

The US Armed forces is an exception.  As such the armed forces fall
under U.S. jurisdictional law and not foreign law.  Especially in
times of WAR; which we are currently in.

Even when we occupy any foreign country, be it willingly or un-willingly.

In some circumstances, the U.S. does have the right to waive those
laws... ie: if a soldier is caught selling drugs in some countries he
can be tried by the laws of that country.

- -James
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