Previously Sam Hartman wrote: > I can't find an answer to the question on this list's archives and so > I'm asking it again. It seems fairly clear to me that the answer is > yes, if proper procedures are followed, but since export issues are > kind of touchy I want to make sure that I'm not missing something.
I'm reading up on the documentation for it now; it seems that with some exception we can indeed put crypto in the main archive now, esp. with the policy changes from last month. > On October 19, the Bureau of Export Administration (BXA) of the US > Department of Commerce issued a new final rule on export of > cryptographic software. This rule updated a rule released in > January. The following is a direct quotation of section 740.13(e) of > the Export Administration Regulations (EAR) found at > http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=bxa&docid=f:740.wais. A good site for information is http://www.bxa.doc.gov/Encryption/Default.htm . > So, according to these regulations, provided that I tell the US > government before doing so, I can export software meeting DFSG from > the US. It's fairly clear for example that I could put software up on > a website within the US, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and then allow > non-US people to download without any special tracking or access > controls. You have to take (3) into account; everyone seems to agree that you don't have to explicitly disallowed exporting to those 7 though. There is also the matter of crypto stuff in non-free: that doesn't meet all the criteria from what I see. > The next question is the importation of crypto into the jurisdiction > where pandora exists. I don't know what the laws are like, but I > suspect that since other developers around the world upload to pandora > importing crypto is fine in that jurisdiction. It is. Wichert. -- ________________________________________________________________ / Generally uninteresting signature - ignore at your convenience \ | [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.liacs.nl/~wichert/ | | 1024D/2FA3BC2D 576E 100B 518D 2F16 36B0 2805 3CB8 9250 2FA3 BC2D |
