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

[Steve Searle]

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

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