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Re:Copyleft terms may become unenforceable in 11 countries d... by tux1968 on Thursday June 14, 2018 @02:02PM (#17313813)
So these aren't accidental consequences of provisions meant to address some other issue. These are specifically designed to attack GPL and other copy-left licenses.
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Re:Copyleft terms may become unenforceable in 11 countries d... by zmmmmm on Thursday June 14, 2018 @02:16PM (#17313979)
The original intent was inspired (I think) by countries like China demanding the source code to Windows as a condition of it use in their country. GPL is just collateral damage due to (a) politicians being almost completely ignorant about everything technological, and (b) the whole thing being negotiated in secret with no input.

When you put (a) and (b) together, it seems like a miracle if the whole thing is not a disaster.

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Re:Copyleft terms may become unenforceable in 11 countries d... by dragonwriter on Thursday June 14, 2018 @02:12PM (#17313931)
They seem on the surface to be designed to attack “source code as a condition of import license” laws,
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Re:Copyleft terms may become unenforceable in 11 countries d... by Myrmornis on Thursday June 14, 2018 @02:06PM (#17313860)
Who is behind this antipathy to copyleft? I wasn’t aware it was on the radar of the sorts of entities involved in writing international trade agreements.
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