Yeah, you might note that. But you should also note that when the fed tries to restrict software export, they lose.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernstein_v._United_States http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junger_v._Daley On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 5:12 PM, root <d...@axiom-developer.org> wrote: > > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
