From my layman's reading of it, requiring the transfer or access to the
This looks to me like the sort of apparently insignificant measure the intellectual property brigade have sneaked into an obscure place hoping nobody would notice until it is too late. source code would not only be unenforceable, but illegal.
From my incomplete research only a few of the worst measures have been removed or put on hold hoping for the USA to rejoin. A few more have been mitigated to a greater or lesser extent, but almost all of the agreement is intact, including the ISDS.
Rod On Tue, 19 Jun 2018 at 15:14, Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo(a)geek-central.gen.nz> wrote:
Seems like the “CPTPP” aka “TPP-11” (TPP minus the USA) may not be entirely free of objectionable provisions. A submission to the Australian ratification process < https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20180615/09090440050/open-source-industry-...
has pointed out the following problematic clause:
No Party shall require the transfer of, or access to, source code of software owned by a person of another Party, as a condition for the import, distribution, sale or use of such software, or of products containing such software, in its territory.
As you may know, such an access requirement is an integral part of copyleft licences like the GPL. What this clause seems to be saying is that such a requirement is unenforceable under the TPP. _______________________________________________ wlug mailing list | wlug(a)list.waikato.ac.nz Unsubscribe: https://list.waikato.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/wlug