On 8/30/07, Mark Brouwer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Based on a posting passing by in [EMAIL PROTECTED] related to
> a project using cryptographic functions, I'm utterly confused. I quote
> from a Board Meeting that has been posted to that list:
>
> "In the long term, using rat or similar scanning to pick up any
> crypto dependencies would be helpful. But that doesn't relieve
> any projects from complying with the export notification policy.
>
> It seems that this process will need tweaking for Incubation
> projects since (at the moment) we use per-project data collection,
> and all of incubator falls under a single project.

Yes, the Incubator PMC (whom I added to this mail, hence I'm quoting
entirely) should be the ultimate responsible for this process.

> We should probably make this part of the entry requirements for
> a project so that the issue is noted long before files exist in
> subversion."
>
> This is different as it appears to me from what has been discussed
> before here when I raised a similar question, where it was stated by
> Geir that we only need to take care of this at release time.
>
> How I read the Board note and the FAQ at
> http://www.apache.org/dev/crypto.html it seems we had to notify the U.S.
> Government already of the JTSK codebase entering SVN.
>
> Any comments?

I think your reading is fine: we've got some homework to do. Any
takers? Any specific instructions from the PMC?

Ciao,

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