Request: Officially oppose TPP Source Code provision

Re:Request: Officially oppose TPP Source Code provision by zb on Thursday November 05, 2015 @06:03PM (#10516758)

Sorry, but the headline ("TPP makes copy left licences illegal" until the mods change it as linkbait) is nonsense. The actual affect of this section is appears to be to prevent governments ("Party" here pretty clearly means a party to the treaty - read "signatory" if that helps) from making proprietary software illegal.

We can argue about whether that's a good thing, but it has no effect on copyleft, as section 3(a) makes clear.

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Re:Request: Officially oppose TPP Source Code provision by zmmmmm on Thursday November 05, 2015 @06:08PM (#10516789)

So, question is, where does a government owned / run entity (say, a university, in some countries sit), wrt being a "Party"? It seems to me this could still bring such entities into play if they are seen as acting on behalf of a "Party".

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Re:Request: Officially oppose TPP Source Code provision by maxerickson on Thursday November 05, 2015 @06:13PM (#10516812)

Are there universities that can impose legal restrictions on imports?

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Re:Request: Officially oppose TPP Source Code provision by zmmmmm on Thursday November 05, 2015 @06:20PM (#10516833)

I don't know, but I'm mostly concerned that "distribution" is included, because Universities certainly can impose restrictions on that, through copyright law.

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