On Nov 26, 2011, at 2:10 PM, Werner Koch 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 ;-)
I had to do it for years. For each release of GPG that I contributed to, I sent an email containing a pointer to the new source code to the Commerce Department. The rules changed slightly in 2004, so that you could send a single email and then be done until the information in that email changed, so I just sent "www.gnupg.org" and haven't bothered with the email since. The rules: http://www.bis.doc.gov/encryption/pubavailencsourcecodenofify.html The 2004 rule change: http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/2004/04-26992.htm David _______________________________________________ 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
