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?
>

If you are really that concerned about it, why don't you take a license like
the LGPL since such components could be distributed in separate libraries?

Best Wishes,
Chris Travers
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