From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 2347D139085 for ; Fri, 6 Jan 2017 15:31:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1BFB8E0D94; Fri, 6 Jan 2017 15:31:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail2.obsidian-studios.com (mail2.obsidian-studios.com [45.79.71.79]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 9FC20E0CD0 for ; Fri, 6 Jan 2017 15:31:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 15157 invoked from network); 6 Jan 2017 15:31:24 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO assp2.obsidian-studios.com) (wlt@::ffff:127.0.0.1) by ::ffff:127.0.0.1 with ESMTPA; 6 Jan 2017 15:31:24 -0000 X-Assp-Version: 2.5.3(16294) on assp2.obsidian-studios.com X-Assp-ID: assp2.obsidian-studios.com m1-16683-10391 X-Assp-Session: 37818462668 (mail 1) X-Assp-Envelope-From: wlt-ml@o-sinc.com X-Assp-Intended-For: gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org X-Assp-Server-TLS: yes Received: from unknown ([fdbe:bad:a55:0:1::211] helo=wlt.localnet) by assp2.obsidian-studios.com with SMTPSA(TLSv1_2 ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256) (2.5.3); 6 Jan 2017 07:31:23 -0800 From: "William L. Thomson Jr." To: gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-project] OT Merging Trustees and Council / Developers and Foundation Date: Fri, 06 Jan 2017 10:31:22 -0500 Message-ID: Organization: Obsidian-Studios, Inc. User-Agent: KMail/5.3.3 (Linux/4.7.5-gentoo; KDE/5.28.0; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: <8835202.ILOODCAab9@wlt> References: <57d3af79-4212-b8b9-40df-6120b1445c8b@gentoo.org> <6395872.cxIrWEFQuW@porto> <8835202.ILOODCAab9@wlt> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Project discussion list X-BeenThere: gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org Reply-To: gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart10452270.5FgYY9snbH"; micalg="pgp-sha1"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: e2c5099f-1307-4dd8-ac1f-1cc10a21bf67 X-Archives-Hash: e15c3c59268b5862bd95987a0f7b2987 --nextPart10452270.5FgYY9snbH Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" On Friday, January 6, 2017 10:15:27 AM EST William L. Thomson Jr. wrote: > On Friday, January 6, 2017 11:48:57 AM EST Andreas K. Huettel wrote: > > Am Donnerstag, 5. Januar 2017, 17:14:51 CET schrieb William L. Thomson= =20 Jr.: > > > Keep in mind the US is founded on freedom of speech. An open source > > > project > > > could be argued along the same lines as freedom of speech and > > > expression. > > > Not to mention an argument could be made for technical benefit of all, > > > etc. > >=20 > > As someone routinely dealing (outside Gentoo) with technology that falls > > under US export control, I can assure you that freedom of speech has > > absolutely nothing to do with this topic. >=20 > Closed or open source software? >=20 > Most any restricted under export tends to be closed source. The US supreme > court has already ruled on this matter regarding open source. Correction Federal Appellate court. A step or two below the Supreme court,= =20 but not something that is likely to be overturned either way. =2D-=20 William L. Thomson Jr. --nextPart10452270.5FgYY9snbH Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iF0EABECAB0WIQTEeldqZjmVut8bVHJNcbKkg6ozUAUCWG+4SgAKCRBNcbKkg6oz UKCuAJ94AyE3JsTV5g6BN5+BCwlfIrAi9gCeL/2ow+TWVQGrmTv8jyde8L3ELYo= =ajoc -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart10452270.5FgYY9snbH--