Re: Crypto and export laws

2009-09-25 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
Piet van Oostrum wrote: >> "M.-A. Lemburg" (M-L) wrote: > >> M-L> Depending on how close a country follows the Wassenaar >> M-L> Arrangement (http://www.wassenaar.org/) OpenSSL, Python >> M-L> and all other open-source software falls under the >> M-L> GENERAL SOFTWARE NOTE part 2.: > >> M-L>

Re: Crypto and export laws

2009-09-25 Thread Ben Finney
Piet van Oostrum writes: > But Python is not in the public domain. Open source != public domain. One always needs to be aware of what bizarro-world definitions these legalese documents are using for terms we might normally understand. However, in this case it seems fairly sane and : GTN "In

Re: Crypto and export laws

2009-09-25 Thread Piet van Oostrum
> Ben Finney (BF) wrote: >BF> Piet van Oostrum writes: >>> But Python is not in the public domain. Open source != public domain. >BF> One always needs to be aware of what bizarro-world definitions these >BF> legalese documents are using for terms we might normally understand. >BF> However,

Re: Crypto and export laws

2009-09-25 Thread Mel
Piet van Oostrum wrote: >> "M.-A. Lemburg" (M-L) wrote: [ ... ] >>M-L> """ >>M-L> The Lists do not control "software" which is either: >>M-L> 1. ... >>M-L> 2. "In the public domain". >>M-L> """ [ ... ] > But Python is not in the public domain. Open source != public domain. > Public domain mea

Re: Crypto and export laws

2009-09-25 Thread Piet van Oostrum
> "M.-A. Lemburg" (M-L) wrote: >M-L> Depending on how close a country follows the Wassenaar >M-L> Arrangement (http://www.wassenaar.org/) OpenSSL, Python >M-L> and all other open-source software falls under the >M-L> GENERAL SOFTWARE NOTE part 2.: >M-L> """ >M-L> The Lists do not control "so

Re: Crypto and export laws

2009-09-25 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
Austin Bingham wrote: > I'm trying to get a handle on how python intersects with > crypto-related export control laws in the US and elsewhere. My current > understanding, per the PSF's wiki, is that any crypto related and > potentially export-sensitive code is in the ssl wrapper, and that, in > fac

Crypto and export laws

2009-09-24 Thread Austin Bingham
I'm trying to get a handle on how python intersects with crypto-related export control laws in the US and elsewhere. My current understanding, per the PSF's wiki, is that any crypto related and potentially export-sensitive code is in the ssl wrapper, and that, in fact, this only links to the actual