Question on OSD #5

[Chris Travers]

On Dec 13, 2007 5:38 PM, Tzeng, Nigel H. <Nigel.Tzeng at jhuapl.edu> wrote:

>  > larry rosen wrote:
> >Statutes and regulations always trump the license. I no longer believe
> that
> >provisions like Jabber s. 5 and MPL 1.1 s. 4 are actually needed in open
> >source licenses. None of my licenses say that any more. Licensees are
> simply
> >expected to obey the law and not to distribute software if doing so would
> >violate the law. It is not the role of the license to educate about that
> >obvious fact.
>
> >/Larry
>
> I guess my question is if a statute says "you can only release information
>
> to people with the correct clearance" you can still reuse the software
> even if you
> do not have rights to do so unless you release code to downstream users
> who
> may not have the correct clearance to see the code?
>

 The copyleft folks would suggest that one cannot use copyleft software in
this environment.

Any reason why a permissive license won't work for you?  In an academic
environment it would seem to be the best choice of licenses anyway because
it allows all members of the community to use the tax-supported work
anyway.

Best Wishes,
Chris Travers
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