On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 7:10 PM, Werner Koch <w...@gnupg.org> wrote: > On Sat, 26 Nov 2011 18:25, nicholas.c...@gmail.com said: > >> The GPG project itself must have hit many of these issues. Is there a > > No, we don't. GnuPG has originally been developed in Germany because we > have been able to do that without being affected by the US _export_ > restrictions. We had to reject any contributions from US citizens or > from people living the the US. That changed by end of 2000 when the > export restrictions were basically dropped for all kind of freely > available software. In the US you only need to send an announcement > mail to some address of the US Department of Commerce to contribute to a > crypto project. I don't have the details at hand, because I am not > affected ;-) > > We still keep the GnuPG infrastructure (e.g. the primary FTP server) in > Europe to be prepared for the case that the US start to restrict crypto > again.
The rules seem so complicated that even from the UK (that is, within the E.U.) I can't work out what the rules for open source are! What a mess! Nicholas _______________________________________________ gpgtools-users mailing list gpgtools-users@lists.gpgtools.org FAQ: http://www.gpgtools.org/faq.html Changes: http://lists.gpgtools.org/mailman/listinfo/gpgtools-users Unsubscribe: http://lists.gpgtools.org/mailman/options/gpgtools-users/arch...@mail-archive.com?unsub=Unsubscribe&unsubconfirm=1 This email sent to: arch...@mail-archive.com
