On Tue, 21 Aug 2007, Ben Finney wrote: > Dererk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > The developer of a software I'm about to package, faced the problem > > of exporting cryptography libraries outside the US, he finally > > turned out his view and he will make his main repository available > > outside the US, punctually in the U.K. > > On reading the whole message, I'd like to summarise for those who > (like me) believe they already know the answer: > > Daniel Drake (a UK citizen currently living in the USA) wants to > release, under the GNU LGPL, software that involves fingerprint > recognition algorithms. This, according to Daniel's research into the > laws, falls foul of US munitions export regulation under a category > separate from cryptographic algorithms — and does *not* have an > exception allowing export of free software. > > I don't have an answer, but I hope for a successful conclusion that > allows free release of this software.
Yeah, this is something that will be hard to answer. Could Daniel Drake write up a brief summation of what he's found so Debian can either get an SPI-hired laywer or the SFLC to determine what needs to be done in addition to what we're already doing so that it can be distributed from main? [It'd give us a starting point to figure out the right questions to ask a lawyer.] Don Armstrong -- The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair. -- Douglas Adams _Mostly Harmless_ http://www.donarmstrong.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu
