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<DIV dir=ltr><FONT size=2><FONT face=Arial>> larry rosen wrote:</FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr><FONT size=2><FONT face=Arial>>Statutes and regulations always trump the license. I no longer believe that<BR>>provisions like Jabber s. 5 and MPL 1.1 s. 4 are actually needed in open<BR>>source licenses. None of my licenses say that any more. Licensees are simply<BR>>expected to obey the law and not to distribute software if doing so would<BR>>violate the law. It is not the role of the license to educate about that<BR>>obvious fact.</FONT><BR><BR>>/Larry<BR><BR><FONT face=Arial>I guess my question is if a statute says "you can only release information </FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr><FONT size=2><FONT face=Arial>to people with the correct clearance" you can still reuse the software even</FONT></FONT><FONT size=2><FONT face=Arial> if you </FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr><FONT size=2><FONT face=Arial>do not have rights to do so unless you release code to downstream users who</FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr><FONT size=2><FONT face=Arial>may not have the correct clearance to see the code?</FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr><FONT size=2><FONT face=Arial>I would have thought you were simply precluded from being able to reuse the </FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr><FONT size=2><FONT face=Arial>software because you would be unable to meet the distribution requirements.</FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr><FONT size=2><FONT face=Arial>Regards,</FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr><FONT size=2><FONT face=Arial>Nigel</FONT></DIV></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>