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Originally posted by DaemonFC View PostWell, I hope that anyone interested in distributing your software gets you to fix the license or just deletes that entire section of code. It's bad enough that Mesa is accepting non-free, non-open code like MLAA already.
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It happens. AFAIK *we* don't have to send the ninja assassins to your house though...
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Originally posted by bridgman View PostI believe section 5 says "remind them that they are required to obey the law", not "urge", "suggest", "request" or "ask nicely"...
Anyways, not sure if you're a lawyer but I'm definitely not, so we probably won't be able to close this here.
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Originally posted by bridgman View PostI think what you just described *is* US law... A gives it to B only if B agrees to same rules. It's certainly what all the standard shipping docco has said for the last 30 years (long before I joined ATI/AMD). Not 100% sure though -- I live in Canada
Anyways, as Tom already said we can work on changing the license if the majority interpretation is that it's a problem... just takes longer and takes time away from doing more useful work.Last edited by DaemonFC; 27 March 2012, 02:17 AM.
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Originally posted by DaemonFC View PostYou could change it to say "We urge US, European, and other citizens to check their local export laws before distributing this software." and be in compliance with that section. As it is, you are most certainly not.
Anyways, not sure if you're a lawyer but I'm definitely not, so we probably won't be able to close this here.
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Originally posted by DaemonFC View PostNow if I give a copy to someone in Canada, he's violating AMD's copyrights if he turns around to give a copy to someone in a country the US government doesn't like, even though the export restrictions themselves might not be the law in Canada.
Anyways, as Tom already said we can work on changing the license if the majority interpretation is that it's a problem... just takes longer and takes time away from doing more useful work.
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Originally posted by bridgman View Post
Some countries, including the United States, have export restrictions for certain types of software. An OSD-conformant license may warn licensees of applicable restrictions and remind them that they are obliged to obey the law; however, it may not incorporate such restrictions itself.
// If you use the software (in whole or in part), you shall adhere to all
// applicable U.S., European, and other export laws, including but not limited
// to the U.S. Export Administration Regulations
You could change it to say "We urge US, European, and other citizens to check their local export laws before distributing this software." and be in compliance with that section. As it is, you are most certainly not.
Edit: This also bounds me, an American, to European law, and if I don't obey law I'm not bound by, I violate AMD's nasty license. As well as "other" laws, so I have to comply with every export law in the world now? What happens if I have to violate Russian export control laws to satisy Uzbekistan's? Even though I'm an American?Last edited by DaemonFC; 27 March 2012, 02:13 AM.
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Check out section 5 :
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