> But there is certainly still the issue with distribution, i.e. the > trade press covered the [planned?] deployment of Debian by the > government of Cuba a couple weeks ago. I wonder who gets into trouble > for "exporting" Debian in that context - even though there is only a > minuscule chance that anyone will bring legal actions. Judging the > past actions of the US government in the context of PGP and Philip R. > Zimmermann one ought to be a little paranoid about that.
It might be noted that, since Sage is "headquartered" in Washington (that is, the Lead and the servers are within the U.S. borders) and may be supported in small parts by NSF grants, Sage is also likely subject to the same U.S. Export Law restrictions. Things like elliptic curves are widely used in crypto work and that is where the "munitions" act probably gets involved. I worked on software many years ago that was restricted by the "munitions list". It was much easier to enforce since I had to mail a physical reel of magnetic tape. Regardless of my personal opinion that such a restriction was very odd, it was still the law. I got signed letters for each tape distributed since I was the software lead, I was inside the U.S., and I would be liable. Tim Daly --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
