From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 10104 invoked by alias); 6 Jun 2008 21:02:49 -0000 Received: (qmail 10094 invoked by uid 22791); 6 Jun 2008 21:02:47 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from relay.uni-heidelberg.de (HELO relay.uni-heidelberg.de) (129.206.100.212) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Fri, 06 Jun 2008 21:02:18 +0000 Received: from ix.urz.uni-heidelberg.de (cyrus1.urz.uni-heidelberg.de [129.206.119.235]) by relay.uni-heidelberg.de (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id m56L25Os014956; Fri, 6 Jun 2008 23:02:09 +0200 Received: from [127.0.0.1] (guest4-1-02.gh.uni-heidelberg.de [147.142.160.206]) by ix.urz.uni-heidelberg.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA6480014; Fri, 6 Jun 2008 23:02:00 +0200 Message-ID: <4849A5C7.1050209@tatramed.sk> Date: Fri, 06 Jun 2008 21:02:00 -0000 From: Peter Slacik User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.13) Gecko/20080313 SeaMonkey/1.1.9 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Philipp Klaus Krause CC: Ross Johnson , pthreads-win32@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: [Fwd: export control pthreads-win32] References: <4847F8B3.6040107@homemail.com.au> <484846EB.2020603@spth.de> In-Reply-To: <484846EB.2020603@spth.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact pthreads-win32-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: pthreads-win32-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2008/txt/msg00026.txt.bz2 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 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 > 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