From: Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <lkcl@lkcl.net>
To: Andrew Lunn <andrew.lunn@ascom.ch>
Cc: ecos-maintainers@ecos.sourceware.org
Subject: Re: export of openssl from US _is_ legal
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2004 16:55:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040113165509.GE18959@lkcl.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040113164955.GK11709@biferten.ma.tech.ascom.ch>
On Tue, Jan 13, 2004 at 05:49:55PM +0100, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 13, 2004 at 04:42:44PM +0000, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
> > dear ecos maintainers,
> >
> > your web site incorrectly says that the openssl port cannot be
> > hosted on a US server.
> >
> > open source projects _can_ be exported from the US.
> >
> > what you need to do is to inform the US government of _where_
> > the software can be obtained from.
> >
> > you need to do some research in order to find out the exact details.
>
> Sure, it can be done. The generic OpenSSL package does it, cygwin does
> it. But as far as i know, its APITA to sort out.
from what i understand, the notification - send an email - is
sufficient.
> Also, how long before the US government changes there mind and adds
> new restrictions?
cater for that by providing a non-us mirror?
> Its safe to simply host is somewhere with more
> freedom and avoid all this bother.
:)
good!
l.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-01-13 16:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-01-13 16:42 Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
2004-01-13 16:50 ` Andrew Lunn
2004-01-13 16:55 ` Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton [this message]
2004-01-13 19:56 ` Jonathan Larmour
2004-01-13 20:54 ` Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
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