P Kishor wrote:
On 5/27/08, Chris Puttick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
----- "Frank Warmerdam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Dave Patton wrote:
> > Frank Warmerdam wrote:
> >
> >> I agree that we ought to consider developing a similar policy to
> >> Apache's. I'll add an agenda item for the next board meeting to
> >> start digging into this.
> >
> > One item for discussion would be what takes place
> > when a project enters incubation. Do they "opt in"
> > to the OSGeo policy? If they don't, are they then
> > excluded from being an OSGeo project? Can they
> > "opt in", and yet maintain their own project
> > infrastructure (website, svn, download links, etc.)
> > on servers in another country, and have access
> > to that infrastructure be subject to policies that
> > may conflict with the OSGeo policy?
>
> Dave,
>
> Projects going through incubation are allowed to maintain their own
> distinct infrastructure, wherever they want for the most part. But
> they are still board as a project to follow OSGeo policy and obey
> applicable US laws even if their download server (for instance) is
> not in the US.
>
> Best regards,
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Then I respectfully suggest, insofar as some recent US laws are at a level of
paranoia that might prevent some open source software from actually being open.
that OSGeo should consider reconstituting itself in a country that is less
totalitarian in its attitudes.
Easy now. Prefixing "respectfully" to assertions of "paranoia" and
"totalitarian" to a country whose funding and work gave rise to
MapServer is not a good strategy. In fact, it would be difficult to
conceive of open source itself without the contributions of this
"totalitarian" and "paranoid" country.
National-level security-related policy decisions are not usually made
with consideration of their impact on every conceivable issue. The key
is to constructively find a way around it, which many on this list are
trying to do. I am sure OSGeo is not the first group to face this
situation.
For starters, I am asking around with my policy-contacts to see what
light they can shed on this.
Regards
Chris
I seem to recall other projects dealing with this in the past too. Like
there were 2 different netscape downloads one for in the US and one for
outside the US possibly with the ssl library removed due to restrictions
on encryption tool export.
Alex
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