Re: US versions of Netscape now available

In article <199607190709.IAA00119@server.test.net> you wrote:

: Jeff Weinstein <jsw@netscape.com> writes:
: > Adam Back wrote:
: > > Presumably as this latest netscape beta is freely distributable, once
: > > it's out it will be on ftp.unimi.dsi.it, ftp.ox.ac.uk, etc, etc.
: > 
: >   Just a minor nit.  No netscape software is freely distributable.
: > The license agreement does not allow people who download it
: > to redistribute it.

: Oh dear!  So I am incorrect... but wait, what about people like
: sunsite northern europe (Imperial College London: ftp.doc.ic.ac.uk)
: who already have a license to be a Netscape mirror site.  Would this
: license allow them to distribute this latest 128 bit netscape beta
: (were it to leak)?

I would like to know what Netscape's position on the above mentioned
scenario is .. (Uploading "possibly" received 128 bit binaries to
official netscape mirrors outside the US, that is) (guess why ...)

bEST Regards,
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	-AJ-

Alex de Joode wrote:

> I would like to know what Netscape's position on the above mentioned
> scenario is .. (Uploading "possibly" received 128 bit binaries to
> official netscape mirrors outside the US, that is) (guess why ...)

I guess I should look again, but I *thought* our licenses explicitly
excepted use of "US-Only" software (defined in the license) from the
standard exclusions.  I think the attys lifted some of the definitions
straight from ITAR and may have quoted 22USC.  Maybe we screwed
up and got the wrong license in the beta and missed the check.
I don't know.  I'll look.  *sigh*

As far as company policy goes, it's a good bet that we won't
willingly break any laws.  Licensing export-restricted software
to a "foreign person" (includes companies, etc) without a
particular export license would probably be a mistake which would
get corrected quickly.

We have made some mistakes. Occasional known distribution 
errors have occured, and in each case we do what the law
says: notify ODTC, and do whatever we can to clean up.  Nothing
big and nasty has come up and I think ODTC has been fine with us.
To my knowledge, every cleanup attempt has been met with cooperation
from all hands involved.

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Tom Paquin            Netscape Communications Corp
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