On 09/06/2010 02:34 PM, Eric Firing wrote:
> On 09/06/2010 06:25 AM, Matthew Brett wrote:
>    
>> Hi,
>>
>> Sorry to ask, but would y'all mind unblocking matlplotlib downloads from 
>> Cuba?
>>
>> I just tried the download from here in Havana, and got:
>>
>> 403 Error – Forbidden
>>
>> Your request is being denied as it appears to be coming from a
>> location banned by our Terms of Use.
>>
>> That's because Sourceforge runs an opt-out blocking policy.  If y'all
>> agree that there's no reason to block matplotlib downloads from Cuba,
>> China etc, would someone mind setting the 'this is not a cryptographic
>> program' setting in the sourceforge interface?
>>      
> Done.
>
> The relevant option in "export controls" 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.
>
> As far as I can see, mpl passes this test.
>    
What about the path simplification or contouring source code?  I would 
think that kind of intense code obfuscation would count as encryption... ;)

<for the lawyers, the above is a joke>

Mike

-- 
Michael Droettboom
Science Software Branch
Space Telescope Science Institute
Baltimore, Maryland, USA


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