Guillaume Rousse wrote: >Hello. > (big snip)
> >The last point is the only real problem IMHO. Basically, it forbids to >export software in "free world ennemy countries TM". I don't know if making >somone from such a country able to download software from a website could be >considered software exportation, but considering the technical impossibility >to prevent it, i doubt Sun itself could claims to fulfill it. > FYI: Some time ago, I was forbidden to download a java package because my ISP did not have reverse DNS address mapping properly setup, even though I'm in Spain, not a "free world enemy", AFAIK. The message I got was something like "we could not assess your origin country satisfactorily, consult technical support". So, Sun is/was using technical mappings between IP block ownership and country to enforce such provisions. I don't know the current status. I had to ssh to a machine that was granted the permission, download from there, and then put it in my machine from there. I was not breaking any law, since I'm allowed to download it. In a sense, they do the following: if the machine used to download the code is in an allowed country, it is not considered export, so they allow it, and transfer the export responsibility further down the chain. (rest snipped) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
