Hugo wrote:
> 
> > Hehe. This is my favourite sentence on your page:
> >
> > > Importation and/or usage in any state of the U.S.A. is forbidden
> > > (Just thanks the USA patents, gif compression and marching cube!)
> > > (Or wait for the expiration of the patents)
> 
> I don't think that's so funny, if he means it.. Not that I live in USA, but
> this just can't be true.. I suppose you tried to optain a licence then? For
> free?  We got GIF compression back at least. We will get your patch into
> official POV-Ray as well.

I do not try to obtain any licence regarding any USA patents.
I'm just aware that such patents exist and are still valid.

Therefore, if you are relevant to USA laws, the patents applies to you.

Because the program is using technics that might be relevant
to the patents (I'm not the final judge on that, the court would be),
if you were using the program while also being subject to the USA patents,
you would be infringing the laws. 
This would means for you to be sent to jail, get a big fine or
whatever suit the texts, prosecutors and judges.

I do not want to be responsable for that, so I expressly forbid
the importation and/or usage of the program that I provide to 
any state of USA where you could get into trouble. Doing so, I just
try to introduce a limitation to my responsabilty so that when you
get prosecuted you could not turn too easily against me. You break
my recommendation/wording, so you assume that alone.

Recent history has proven that USA tend to apply USA laws to foreign
citizen for acts made outside of USA when the foreign citizen happen
to somehow pass on USA ground... so I'll also restrict my trip to
avoid USA ground.

As provided, the program was made in France, by French people, 
served by a French ISP, and is perfectly legal regarding french laws.

P.S.: there is no tricky code in the program to check where you are running it.

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http://grimbert.cjb.net/
Puis, s'il advient d'un peu triompher, par hasard,

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