Hans-Peter Diettrich schreef:
Vincent Snijders schrieb:
SourceForge seem to have changed the policy regarding the block -
perhaps the Free Pascal project and Lazarus should look into these
changes:
http://sourceforge.net/blog/some-good-news-sourceforge-removes-blanket-blocking/
I am not sure that FPC and therefore Lazarus (we offer FPC packages in
and with Lazarus packages and installers) is not subject to US export
regulation, if exported from some US SourceForge server.
The export is disallowed by international contracts, i.e. not only US
servers are affected. But only the export of strong encryption code is
regulated, no other software is affected.
So somebody should reset the "export" flag for Lazarus (and FPC) on SF.
Other servers may follow...
The literal text is:
This project does NOT incorporate, access, call upon, or otherwise use
encryption of any kind, including, but not limited to, open source
algorithms and/or calls to encryption in the operating system or
underlying platform
The current (default) option is:
This project DOES incorporate, access, call upon or otherwise use
encryption. Posting of open source encryption is controlled under U.S.
Export Control Classification Number "ECCN" 5D002 and must be
simultaneously reported by email to the U.S. government. You are
responsible for submitting this email report to the U.S. government in
accordance with procedures described in:
http://www.bis.doc.gov/encryption/PubAvailEncSourceCodeNotify.html and
Section 740.13(e) of the Export Administration Regulations ("EAR") 15
C.F.R. Parts 730-772.
Because FPC contains for example a blowfish unit,
http://svn.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/trunk/packages/fcl-base/src/blowfish.pp?view=markup,
I think I cannot choose the first option.
Vincent
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