Country Of Origin Verification - 8944

Country Of Origin Verification - 8944

[Watson, Christian M. (GRC-V000)[Peerless Technologies Corp.]]

Hello,

My name is Christian Watson and I am a Supply Chain Risk Management Coordinator at NASA Glenn Research Center  As such, I ensure that all NASA Headquarter IT purchase requests comply with Section 514 of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2018, Public Law 115-141 (amended), enacted February 28, 2018.  To do so, the country of origin information must be obtained from the company that develops, produces, manufactures, or assembles the product(s).  Specifically, identify the country where each of the following products were developed, manufactured, and assembled:

* TightVNC 2.8.27

Additionally, if the country of origin is outside the United States, please provide any information you may have stating that testing is performed in the United States prior to supplying products to customers.
Lastly, if available, please identify all authorized distributors of the product in question.




Christian Watson
Peerless Technologies Corporation
NASA Glenn Research Center
21000 Brook Park Rd, MS 142-1
Cleveland, OH 44135
216.433.5061

Re: Country Of Origin Verification - 8944

[Brian Inglis]

On 2020-06-11 10:07, Watson, Christian M. (GRC-V000)[Peerless Technologies
Corp.] via Cygwin wrote:
> My name is Christian Watson and I am a Supply Chain Risk Management Coordinator at NASA Glenn Research Center  As such, I ensure that all NASA Headquarter IT purchase requests comply with Section 514 of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2018, Public Law 115-141 (amended), enacted February 28, 2018.  To do so, the country of origin information must be obtained from the company that develops, produces, manufactures, or assembles the product(s).  Specifically, identify the country where each of the following products were developed, manufactured, and assembled:
> 
> * TightVNC 2.8.27
> 
> Additionally, if the country of origin is outside the United States, please provide any information you may have stating that testing is performed in the United States prior to supplying products to customers.
> Lastly, if available, please identify all authorized distributors of the product in question.

This is the second emial like this you have sent to the Cygwin mailing list:
if you are going to send a bunch of these to the Cygwin mailing list, you should
save yourself time and energy, and list all the Cygwin packages in one email,
which may receive no response, unless you are spam blocked.

-- 
Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

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too much technical detail. Reader discretion is advised.
[Data in IEC units and prefixes, physical quantities in SI.]

Re: Country Of Origin Verification - 8944

[Christopher Faylor]

On Thu, Jun 11, 2020 at 11:24:09AM -0600, Brian Inglis wrote:
>On 2020-06-11 10:07, Watson, Christian M. (GRC-V000)[Peerless Technologies
>Corp.] via Cygwin wrote:
>> My name is Christian Watson and I am a Supply Chain Risk Management Coordinator at NASA Glenn Research Center  As such, I ensure that all NASA Headquarter IT purchase requests comply with Section 514 of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2018, Public Law 115-141 (amended), enacted February 28, 2018.  To do so, the country of origin information must be obtained from the company that develops, produces, manufactures, or assembles the product(s).  Specifically, identify the country where each of the following products were developed, manufactured, and assembled:
>> 
>> * TightVNC 2.8.27
>> 
>> Additionally, if the country of origin is outside the United States, please provide any information you may have stating that testing is performed in the United States prior to supplying products to customers.
>> Lastly, if available, please identify all authorized distributors of the product in question.
>
>This is the second email like this you have sent to the Cygwin mailing list:
>if you are going to send a bunch of these to the Cygwin mailing list, you should
>save yourself time and energy, and list all the Cygwin packages in one email,
>which may receive no response, unless you are spam blocked.
                                ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

...which is a very good possibility if this proves to be write-only email.

cgf

Re: Country Of Origin Verification - 8944

[Brian Inglis]

On 2020-06-11 11:19, Brian Inglis wrote:
> On 2020-06-11 09:59, Watson, Christian M. (GRC-V000)[Peerless Technologies
> Corp.] via Cygwin wrote:
>> My name is Christian Watson and I am a Supply Chain Risk Management Coordinator at NASA Glenn Research Center  As such, I ensure that all NASA Headquarter IT purchase requests comply with Section 514 of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2018, Public Law 115-141 (amended), enacted February 28, 2018.  To do so, the country of origin information must be obtained from the company that develops, produces, manufactures, or assembles the product(s).  Specifically, identify the country where each of the following products were developed, manufactured, and assembled:

Just checked the basis of what you are asking.

Section 514 is about use of funds for acquisition:
Cygwin is free software so these criteria *do not apply*!

Products were developed and assembled by an international project team.

If you are spending funds to acquire this software, ask the people who you are
paying for a free product to provide the answers!

If in doubt, see what answers are in the files for Linux, NTP, or similar projects.

-- 
Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

This email may be disturbing to some readers as it contains
too much technical detail. Reader discretion is advised.
[Data in IEC units and prefixes, physical quantities in SI.]

Re: Country Of Origin Verification - 8944

[Brian Inglis]

On 2020-06-11 09:59, Watson, Christian M. (GRC-V000)[Peerless Technologies
Corp.] via Cygwin wrote:
> My name is Christian Watson and I am a Supply Chain Risk Management Coordinator at NASA Glenn Research Center  As such, I ensure that all NASA Headquarter IT purchase requests comply with Section 514 of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2018, Public Law 115-141 (amended), enacted February 28, 2018.  To do so, the country of origin information must be obtained from the company that develops, produces, manufactures, or assembles the product(s).  Specifically, identify the country where each of the following products were developed, manufactured, and assembled:
> 
> * Cygwin 3.1.5

[DISCLAIMER: the following is FYI - I am a volunteer with no status]

As Cygwin is a volunteer international open source *FREE* software project, not
a company, and it consists of thousands of separate packages, each maintained by
international volunteers, please submit this query to the organization to whom
you submitted the purchase request, who will have paid employees to do this
research for you, for each of the thousands of included packages.
If no one submitted a purchase request: when the software was downloaded, you
received everything to which you are entitled, plus you may read the information
available on the site with home page https://cygwin.com/, to dreive the
information you request.

> Additionally, if the country of origin is outside the United States, please provide any information you may have stating that testing is performed in the United States prior to supplying products to customers.

From CYGWIN_LICENSE:

"THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED ``AS IS'' AND WITHOUT ANY EXPRESSED OR
IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE IMPLIED
WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE."

See
	https://cygwin.com/licensing.html

for more disclaimers in the linked licences.

> Lastly, if available, please identify all authorized distributors of the product in question.

No distributors are authorize: everyone is authorized to distribute Cygwin
packages as long as they meet all the applicable licensing terms.

From
	https://cygwin.com/licensing.html:

"Does Cygwin have an [US]ECCN[Export Classification Control Number
([US]EAR[Export Administration Regulations])] number?

No. Cygwin source and binary are made publicly available and free of charge to
download so Cygwin is provided under [US]TSU[Technology and Software
Unrestricted (EAR license exception)]/[US]TSPA[Technology and Software Publicly
Available] exemption. As a result, Cygwin does not require an ECCN number."

There are over a hundred known monitored sites provided by organizations around
the world, and more adhoc mirror sites for distribution of the software around
the world, many publicly available at universities, or internal to large
organizations, and large companies.
You may find NASA has one or more Cygwin mirror sites: e.g.

	ftp://ftp.nas.nasa.gov/mirrors/cygwin.com/pub/cygwin/

-- 
Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

This email may be disturbing to some readers as it contains
too much technical detail. Reader discretion is advised.
[Data in IEC units and prefixes, physical quantities in SI.]

Country Of Origin Verification - 8944

[Watson, Christian M. (GRC-V000)[Peerless Technologies Corp.]]

Hello,

My name is Christian Watson and I am a Supply Chain Risk Management Coordinator at NASA Glenn Research Center  As such, I ensure that all NASA Headquarter IT purchase requests comply with Section 514 of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2018, Public Law 115-141 (amended), enacted February 28, 2018.  To do so, the country of origin information must be obtained from the company that develops, produces, manufactures, or assembles the product(s).  Specifically, identify the country where each of the following products were developed, manufactured, and assembled:

* Cygwin 3.1.5

Additionally, if the country of origin is outside the United States, please provide any information you may have stating that testing is performed in the United States prior to supplying products to customers.
Lastly, if available, please identify all authorized distributors of the product in question.




Christian Watson
Peerless Technologies Corporation
NASA Glenn Research Center
21000 Brook Park Rd, MS 142-1
Cleveland, OH 44135
216.433.5061