On Thu, May 04, 2000 at 09:54:43AM -0700, David Fedor wrote:
> >> But I think it's just
> >> discrimination that americans can download the ROM's and the people from
> >> Europe don't.
> >> What is the reason for this,
> >
> >As I understand it, it has to do with US export restrictions on crypto
> >technology.
>
> Exactly. Our government doesn't let us send "strong" encryption (like what
> is in the Palm VII roms) to certain other countries. Plus as a separate
> issue, the lawyers tell us that web-based clickwraps aren't necessarily
> enforcable in all countries.
>
> If someone has a better idea, I'm interested to hear it. As far as I can
> tell the current situation, with one seeding license giving you everything
> you need, is really good. The only complication is getting it in the first
> place.
You need the encryption only for the PQAs with secure links, which are
a very small percentage and would generally not affect testing.
Moreover I think they are in one or two libraries.
Either you can simply not include those libraries or use stub versions
that return "not available" if called.
So you could create an "export" version of the VII rom.
Or maybe you could simply put Clipper, INetLibrary and the other
non-security prcs up separately sort of like omnisky does. Use the OS
3.3 or 3.5 image and add these files into Ram.
(I would like this too especially if they were available beyond
developers since clipper has some applications beyond pure live
internet web clipping).
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