Judd Storrs wrote: > On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 11:20 AM, Carnë Draug <carandraug+...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> I am not spreading misinformation. David said it himself, that it's >> only the USA who blocks these countries. >> > > I don't think you understood David's response, then. Apparently, the > US does *not* have a blanket ban on all software export to those > countries, otherwise the checkbox would not exist in the first place. > Octave-forge does not contain encryption or access encryption in > octave and is regulated under a different category. All exports are > regulated everywhere. The actual regulations that apply to octave and > octave-forge are essentially uniform with the EU. The US is not more > strict in its regulation of octave and octave-forge than other > countries. Whining about the USA's regulation of things that are not > octave and not octave-forge is off-topic. > I've never had to export to one of these six countries so don't know the details, but I suspect they block almost everything... Perhaps some things exported under the US ECCN EAR99 might pass but I can't be sure, not having done it in the past. These embargoes against these six countries are economic in nature rather than military, so it would make sense to block everything. Reading
http://www.access.gpo.gov/bis/ear/pdf/746.pdf Taking Cuba as an example, the only exception that Octave might fall under is the text (1) License Exceptions. You may export or reexport without a license if your transaction meets all the applicable terms and conditions of any of the following License Exceptions. To determine the scope and eligibility requirements, you will need to turn to the sections or specific paragraphs of part 740 of the EAR (License Exceptions). Octave would be covered by part 740.13 of the document http://www.access.gpo.gov/bis/ear/pdf/740.pdf But reading it, there is text like "minimum necessary technology to maintain legally exported software" and "object code" only.. So I suspect Octave can not be exported or reexported to Cuba. David ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Octave-dev mailing list Octave-dev@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/octave-dev
