Re: Exporting Issues related with US laws

2007-08-22 Thread Dererk
Hi again! Guys, I'm really thankful you took the time to spend on this matter!! I'm going to contact the developer, and make him up-to-date with this thread. Hope he may join us and make the situation a bit clear for all, and offer himself help throw this way. Meanwhile, thanks a *lot* for all

Exporting Issues related with US laws

2007-08-20 Thread Dererk
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello there! I would like to ask you for help again, now with something it has been around in Debian a few years ago: US exporting laws. The developer of a software I'm about to package, faced the problem of exporting cryptography libraries outside

Re: Exporting Issues related with US laws

2007-08-20 Thread Ben Finney
Dererk [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The developer of a software I'm about to package, faced the problem of exporting cryptography libraries outside the US, he finally turned out his view and he will make his main repository available outside the US, punctually in the U.K. On reading the whole

Re: Exporting Issues related with US laws

2007-08-20 Thread Don Armstrong
On Tue, 21 Aug 2007, Ben Finney wrote: Dererk [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The developer of a software I'm about to package, faced the problem of exporting cryptography libraries outside the US, he finally turned out his view and he will make his main repository available outside the US,

Re: Exporting Issues related with US laws

2007-08-20 Thread Joe Smith
Ben Finney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Dererk [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The developer of a software I'm about to package, faced the problem of exporting cryptography libraries outside the US, he finally turned out his view and he will make his main repository

Re: Exporting Issues related with US laws

2007-08-20 Thread Pat
Interesting that fingerprint matching algorithms should fall into this category as well. Don't listen to a word I say ;) I would say that as a UK citizen what he does with the software one he reaches the UK should not be an issue as long as it is within the UK's laws (says one member of the jury)

Re: Exporting Issues related with US laws

2007-08-20 Thread Ben Finney
Pat [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Who is actually exporting the software from the UK, is it the person in the United States? Does the person who is giving the software to the person in the UK know that they will export it, or did they tell them they would not? My understanding was that the