USA export restrictions and GPL - how can they co-exist?

[James Kosin]

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Steve Searle wrote:
> Around 10:27pm on Friday, August 10, 2007 (UK time), James Kosin
> scrawled:
>
>> The US Armed forces is an exception.  As such the armed forces
>> fall under U.S. jurisdictional law and not foreign law.
>> Especially in times of WAR; which we are currently in.
>>
>> Even when we occupy any foreign country, be it willingly or
>> un-willingly.
>>
>> In some circumstances, the U.S. does have the right to waive
>> those laws... ie: if a soldier is caught selling drugs in some
>> countries he can be tried by the laws of that country.
>
> Yes but what I meant was that if a US serviceman took a Fedora
> laptop to Iraq, he would be breaking US laws (i.e. export controls)
>  not that he would be breaking Iraqi laws.
>
> Steve
>
No,  he would not be; unless he planned on selling his laptop or
letting someone from Iraq use his laptop.
Export laws govern the sale and transport of equipment outside the US
for sale and since he is a US citizen... It can not govern his taking
of a Laptop for personal use in Iraq as a violation...  Like I said,
unless he was planning on selling his laptop.

- -James
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