On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 1:54 AM, Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven<asmo...@in-nomine.org> wrote: > -On [20090823 22:10], Guido van Rossum (gu...@python.org) wrote: >>Also, I suppose there could be (US) export problems with the code, so it >>would have to be optional (and we might not be able to build it into >>binaries we distribute from python.org). > > For all I know the website and repository are both located @ the XS4All > colocation, so how does US export problems apply? It would apply if the box > would've been hosted in the USA, but they're not for all I know. > > It's one of the reasons FreeBSD had their ebones repository located in Zuid > Afrika back in the day. Nowadays they can just include all the relevant bits > in the repository. So I wonder how applicable the entire US export > restriction still is nowadays. > > In short: I don't think we have much to worry about.
Are you a lawyer? Do you know the legal history of Python distributions and the US export laws? It's not so easy -- for one, the PSF (a US foundation) owns the copyright. -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
