On Mon, 17 May 1999, Joey Hess wrote: > Well what do you do about a mirror in the US that can import software but > cannot export it? You either have to somehow validate all downloads of that > software from the mirror are from people in the US, or you leave the mirror > open to downloads from everywhere and thus breaking the law.
I would think that if a mirror couldn't export a peice of software, it just wouldn't host it. The logistics of figuring out which country every IP is in are... daunting, to say the least. Jonathan