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From: Al Christians <achrist@easystreet.com>
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Subject: Re: Market pressures for more reliable software
Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2001 08:46:41 -0700
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Ted Dennison wrote:
> 
> Since the
> military requires the sources anyway, and refuses to give out the 
> software in most cases, they are quite compatabile with the GPL. 

That's a curious one.  GPL says:

"If ... conditions are imposed on you ... that contradict the conditions
of this License, they do       not excuse you from the conditions of
this License. If you cannot distribute so as to satisfy simultaneously
your obligations under this License and any other pertinent obligations,
then as a consequence you may not distribute the Program at all." 

This would appear to make it impossible, for example for a military
contractor that 'distributes' its products to military customers to
include GPL code in a weapons system that was under security
restrictions, or for one country to license military technology
that included GPL code to another country with any restrictions on 
to whom the weapons could be re-sold.  And is hurling a projectile 
that contains embedded software 'redistribution'?


Al