On Wed, 2001-12-12 at 16:34, Steve Fox wrote: > On Wed, 2001-12-12 at 16:11, Scott Klement wrote: > > > > I'm not a lawyer, nor do I have one that I can ask. Does anyone have > > access to a lawyer that this could be run past? I'd hate to have to > > hire one for the purposes of free software... > > I can give it a shot, but I can't promise a fast response...IBM lawyers > take forever to do anything ;0)
I went ahead and asked about this. I asked: "If an Open Source project dynamically links to an encryption library (OpenSSL), even though there is no encryption in the project itself, does that mean the project has to be classified as an encryption product? In other words, does it need to be reported to Bureau of Export Administration at http://www.bxa.doc.gov/Encryption/PubAvailEncSourceCodeNofify.html ?" and the response I got was: "No. We're not required to do anything special for open source code as long as it doesn't contain cryptography." All standard disclaimers apply...this is not an official legal statement, yadda, yadda, yadda. But I think that Scott was going to do it anyways. So no big deal if the form was easy to fill out. Just thought I'd follow up. -- Steve Fox IBM Linux Technology Center http://www.ibm.com/linux/ltc http://k-lug.org _______________________________________________ This is the Linux 5250 Development Project (LINUX5250) mailing list To post a message email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options, visit: http://lists.midrange.com/cgi-bin/listinfo/linux5250 or email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives at http://archive.midrange.com/linux5250.
