From: Peter Slacik <peter.slacik@tatramed.sk>
To: Philipp Klaus Krause <pkk@spth.de>
Cc: Ross Johnson <Ross.Johnson@homemail.com.au>,
pthreads-win32@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: [Fwd: export control pthreads-win32]
Date: Fri, 06 Jun 2008 21:02:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4849A5C7.1050209@tatramed.sk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <484846EB.2020603@spth.de>
Philipp Klaus Krause wrote:
> Ross Johnson schrieb:
>
> > I suspect there is no answer but I thought I'd ask the list because it
> > hasn't come up before.
>
> Sounds like he wants to use pthreads-win32 in a product that will be
> shipped to Cuba or something.
> However I don't know how US export regulations apply to free software
> (with commercial software you often have to agree not to reexport to
> Cuba even indirectly when downloading something, but here it's just the
> (L)GPL). However we see countries like Cuba use free software and I've
> never heard of someone being put to court for giing it to them.
>
> Philipp
While using free softwae, I've often seen similar approach to those
expressed by PuTTY
<http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/%7Esgtatham/putty/> authors:
> /*LEGAL WARNING*: Use of PuTTY, PSCP, PSFTP and Plink is illegal in
> countries where encryption is outlawed. I believe it is legal to use
> PuTTY, PSCP, PSFTP and Plink in England and Wales and in many other
> countries, but I am not a lawyer and so if in doubt you should seek
> legal advice before downloading it. You may find this site
> <http://rechten.uvt.nl/koops/cryptolaw/> useful (it's a survey of
> cryptography laws in many countries) but I can't vouch for its
> correctness./
In other words, and especially concerning the following:
> *For export control legal expertise, I require information to the
> country of origin and to any export restrictions. Particularly, I am
> soliciting information of ECCN in US Commerce Control List and whether
> a license exception may be used for it.
I think that the destination countries' rules should be checked (by the
potential user, I'd suggest) whether the SW is allowed to be used there.
But still, I'm anything but a lawyer....
Peter Slacik
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-06-05 14:31 Ross Johnson
2008-06-05 20:06 ` Philipp Klaus Krause
2008-06-06 21:02 ` Peter Slacik [this message]
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