Re: ITP seahorse

2000-05-25 Thread Mike Bilow
On 2000-05-24 at 23:22 -0400, Branden Robinson wrote: > [Replies to this message should move to debian-legal.] I have dropped debian-devel as a recipient. > However, the BXA regulations were later amended[2]. I haven't read through > all the changes, but we might presume with some caution that

Re: ITP seahorse

2000-05-24 Thread Branden Robinson
[Replies to this message should move to debian-legal.] On Wed, May 24, 2000 at 09:48:38PM -0400, Mike Bilow wrote: > You are also right in saying that the crypto in the Debian non-US tree > might well fall within the new rules and be legally exportable to most of > the world, but there is still a

Re: ITP seahorse

2000-05-21 Thread Ronald L. Chichester
Simon Richter wrote: > Anyone who is a lawyer or knows one care to check this? We're still > talking about a gpg frontend, which will not have any general plugins -- > just crypto ones. > I'll check into it in more detail when I get back from a business trip (Thursday). Does someone need the ans

Re: ITP seahorse

2000-05-20 Thread Simon Richter
On 19 May 2000, Stephen Zander wrote: > It *used* to be that hooks explicitly for crypto-support were caught > by the BXA; you needed a general purpose help/plug-in framework to be > OK. > The recent rewrite of the regs may have relaxed this. IANAL. Anyone who is a lawyer or knows one care to ch

Re: ITP seahorse

2000-05-19 Thread Stephen Zander
> "Julian" == Julian Gilbey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Are you sure about that? I remember something about programs >> providing the necessary hooks to insert encryption software to >> be restricted too. Julian> debian-legal, anyone know the answer to this one? It *used* to

Re: ITP seahorse

2000-05-19 Thread David Chan
In debian.legal, you wrote: >I'm 99% sure that if the program doesn't contain encryption software >that it is okay. The Export Control Laws don't say anything about >"hooks" or the like. The demarcation line is whether or not it >contains encryption code. No encryption code, no problem -- hooks

Re: ITP seahorse

2000-05-19 Thread Ronald L . Chichester
On Fri, 19 May 2000, Julian Gilbey wrote: > On Fri, May 19, 2000 at 03:22:19AM +0200, Simon Richter wrote: > > > > The program is not encumbered by encryption laws, so it doesn't need > to go > > > > into non-US. > > > > Are you sure about that? I remember something about programs providing > the

Re: ITP seahorse

2000-05-19 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Fri, May 19, 2000 at 03:22:19AM +0200, Simon Richter wrote: > > > The program is not encumbered by encryption laws, so it doesn't need to go > > > into non-US. > > Are you sure about that? I remember something about programs providing the > necessary hooks to insert encryption software to be re