mozilla export restrictions

2003-08-07 Thread Wolfgang Fischer
Hi, I've discovered following note on the mozilla download page (http://mozilla.org/releases/#1.5) : This source code is subject to the U.S. Export Administration Regulations and other U.S. law, and may not be exported or re-exported to certain countries (currently Afghanistan (Taliban controlled

Re: mozilla export restrictions

2003-08-07 Thread Florian Weimer
Wolfgang Fischer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Does this mean that we have to put mozilla to non-free? I don't think so. AFAIK, these restrictions are not imposed by the license, and apply to U.S. citizens only.

Re: mozilla export restrictions

2003-08-07 Thread Barak Pearlmutter
I've discovered following note on the mozilla download page (http://mozilla.org/releases/#1.5) : This source code is subject to the U.S. Export Administration Regulations ... Does this mean that we have to put mozilla to non-free? No. That statement is not part of the license. It's just

Re: mozilla export restrictions

2003-08-07 Thread Wolfgang Fischer
On Thu, 07 Aug 2003 16:30:17 +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: Wolfgang Fischer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Does this mean that we have to put mozilla to non-free? I don't think so. AFAIK, these restrictions are not imposed by the license, and apply to U.S. citizens only. Doesn't this mean

Re: mozilla export restrictions

2003-08-07 Thread Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker
Wolfgang Fischer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, 07 Aug 2003 16:30:17 +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: I don't think so. AFAIK, these restrictions are not imposed by the license, and apply to U.S. citizens only. Doesn't this mean that we should put it to non-us? If we let it on the main

Forced publication requirement and import/export restrictions

2003-03-14 Thread Alexander Cherepanov
Hi! Here is some combination of the Chinese Dissident and Fred the Lawyer tests. Consider the following situation. There is a program written in Europe. Someone in USA (say, Fred the USA dissident:-) takes this program and incorporates some form of encryption which is illegal to export from USA.

Re: export restrictions

2003-02-04 Thread Branden Robinson
On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 05:21:57PM -0500, Sam Hartman wrote: If the export restrictions are a legal note and are not intended to be part of the license then upload it to main. If the legal restrictions are part of the license then you need to go carefully read the GPL; I believe there may

export restrictions

2003-02-03 Thread Antoine Mathys
Hello, I am interested in packaging nqthm, a public version of the Boyer-Moore theorem prover. It is distributed under the GPL. However, it has the export restriction quoted at the end. Is it possible to distribute it ? If it is, should the interested users living in the listed countries be

Re: export restrictions

2003-02-03 Thread Antoine Mathys
Under U. S. law, Nqthm-1992 may be legally exported from the U. S. to any country except as follows: But of course, it would create a problem for US Debian mirrors, which probably couldn't carry it. I had heard that Debian was considering eliminating Non-US, but this suggests there's

Re: export restrictions

2003-02-03 Thread Sam Hartman
to be cryptographic software. If the export restrictions are a legal note and are not intended to be part of the license then upload it to main. If the legal restrictions are part of the license then you need to go carefully read the GPL; I believe there may be an exception that allows you to upload

debian cd-image mirrors and US export restrictions

2002-11-04 Thread nighty
Hi for several weeks now I am dealing with the different methods of downloading the official cd images of the debian distribution. The hundred of mirrors containing the debian packages are clearly separated into those, which are located in the US, and those, which are not, because of the

Re: Export Restrictions

2000-08-16 Thread Branden Robinson
system is distributed from a large variety of sites around the world, and you may retrieve from those sites exactly the same software as you would find on a US-hosted FTP site. (In some cases, even more software, as patent law and export restrictions on cryptographic software limit what can

Export Restrictions

2000-08-15 Thread Dompnier, Frank
Name: Frank Dompnier Company Name: Talisman Energy Inc. Address: Suite 3400, 888 3rd Street SW Calgary, Alberta T2P 5C5 Phone: (403) 237-1284 Fax: (403) 237-1674 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Request type: S/W Export restrictions We are interested in purchasing Debian Linux for our

Re: Export Restrictions

2000-08-15 Thread Raul Miller
which is for whatever reason restricted by the U.S. If the U.S. has placed export restrictions on the software then content in non-us.debian.org was not exported from the U.S. Thanks, and I hope this helps, -- Raul