On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 2:41 PM, acutler22 <acutle...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > After looking at the LVS exemption though, it points out that *everything* > packaged with Codec2 must be less than $5000: http://goo.gl/VZPTc > This could pose an issue of Codec2 were packaged in a large commercial > telecom product. > There *are* other exemptions to 5A001: http://goo.gl/xTm9c > -------- > "GBS: Yes, except 5A001.a, b.5, e, and h. > > CIV: Yes, except 5A001.a, b.3, b.5, e, and h. > > STA: License Exception STA may not be used to ship any commodity in > 5A001.b.3, .b.5 or .h to any of the eight destinations listed in > §740.20(c)(2) of the EAR." > > Definitions, restrictions and reporting requirements for "GBS", "CIV", and > "STA" exemption requirements are found here: http://goo.gl/7jkyp > There's a lot of codes and exemptions to dig through, but to summarize > there's a lot of ways Codec2 can be exempt. When Codec2 is embedded in a > commercial product for export from the USA worth more than $5000, the company > producing the product will probably have their legal team review the > exemptions with a fine tooth comb.
In the US at least precedent such as Bernstein v. United States makes the export restriction issue pretty much moot for open source software development. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernstein_v._United_States) But as you note, commercial products have more complications but as far as I can tell they're no different than encryption and presumably a commercial venture is capable of dealing with them. (And personally, outside of special applications like ham radio and broadcast, I think it's ethically questionable to provide communications protocols _without_ strong encryption) More of a concern is jurisdiction which have copied the US regulations without also copying the legal history that makes the regulations tolerable... I believe .AU is one of these places. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-novd2d _______________________________________________ Freetel-codec2 mailing list Freetel-codec2@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freetel-codec2
