Re: [OctDev] Export control

2011-05-08 Thread J C
I really don't understand those choices. If (2) is chosen then you ban those countries from downloading AND go through the BIS procedure/paperwork ? or you go through the BIS procedure ONLY if you want to export to those countries as well? >>FYI some PHP people seem to be freaking out about md5()

Re: [OctDev] Export control

2010-04-28 Thread Carnë Draug
On 28 April 2010 12:50, David Bateman wrote: > I'm not a lawyer, but have dealt with a number of them for this type of > issue, so take what I say with a grain of salt. My understand is that your > contribution as a single piece would be considered as being covered under > the rules of the country

Re: [OctDev] Export control

2010-04-28 Thread Judd Storrs
On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 1:31 PM, Søren Hauberg wrote: > Based on this discussion, we are now using option 1. (but if there are > doubts I'll change it back, just to be certain) My doubt was whether you were being asked to additionally assert compliance with any additional US export restrictions.

Re: [OctDev] Export control

2010-04-28 Thread Søren Hauberg
ons, 28 04 2010 kl. 13:28 -0400, skrev Judd Storrs: > Søren, > > Is this the entirety of the text that the checkbox carries or was this > just a portion you were unsure about? > > On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 3:59 AM, Søren Hauberg wrote: > >This project does NOT incorporate, access, call upo

Re: [OctDev] Export control

2010-04-28 Thread Judd Storrs
Søren, Is this the entirety of the text that the checkbox carries or was this just a portion you were unsure about? On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 3:59 AM, Søren Hauberg wrote: >This project does NOT incorporate, access, call upon, or >otherwise use encryption of any kind, including, bu

Re: [OctDev] Export control

2010-04-28 Thread Judd Storrs
On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 12:25 PM, Carnë Draug wrote: > On 28 April 2010 12:23, David Bateman wrote: >> Errr, except that there exists the concept of reexportation. If Octave is >> deemed as a projet to reside in the US (and I'd say that it does), >> reexportation in contravention of the export co

Re: [OctDev] Export control

2010-04-28 Thread David Bateman
Judd Storrs wrote: > On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 12:41 PM, David Bateman wrote: > >> 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 s

Re: [OctDev] Export control

2010-04-28 Thread Judd Storrs
On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 12:41 PM, David Bateman wrote: > 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

Re: [OctDev] Export control

2010-04-28 Thread David Bateman
Carnë Draug wrote: > On 28 April 2010 12:23, David Bateman wrote: > >> Errr, except that there exists the concept of reexportation. If Octave is >> deemed as a projet to reside in the US (and I'd say that it does), >> reexportation in contravention of the export controls of the original >> coun

Re: [OctDev] Export control

2010-04-28 Thread David Bateman
Judd Storrs wrote: > On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 11:20 AM, Carnë Draug > 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

Re: [OctDev] Export control

2010-04-28 Thread Carnë Draug
On 28 April 2010 12:23, David Bateman wrote: > Errr, except that there exists the concept of reexportation. If Octave is > deemed as a projet to reside in the US (and I'd say that it does), > reexportation in contravention of the export controls of the original > country (For example US -> Portuga

Re: [OctDev] Export control

2010-04-28 Thread Carnë Draug
On 28 April 2010 12:03, Judd Storrs wrote: > On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 11:20 AM, Carnë Draug > 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 doe

Re: [OctDev] Export control

2010-04-28 Thread David Bateman
Carnë Draug wrote: > On 28 April 2010 10:54, Judd Storrs wrote: > >> Please read David's responses and stop spreading baseless >> misinformation. The laws seem to be fairly uniform throughout the >> world by international treaty. Perhaps you can tell us which country >> you inhabit and why you

Re: [OctDev] Export control

2010-04-28 Thread Judd Storrs
On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 11:20 AM, Carnë Draug 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 tho

Re: [OctDev] Export control

2010-04-28 Thread Carnë Draug
On 28 April 2010 10:54, Judd Storrs wrote: > Please read David's responses and stop spreading baseless > misinformation. The laws seem to be fairly uniform throughout the > world by international treaty. Perhaps you can tell us which country > you inhabit and why you think these particular interna

Re: [OctDev] Export control

2010-04-28 Thread Judd Storrs
On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 11:11 PM, Carnë Draug wrote: > Since the USA seems to be the only country to have this rule there > would be plenty of getting around. Please read David's responses and stop spreading baseless misinformation. The laws seem to be fairly uniform throughout the world by inter

Re: [OctDev] Export control

2010-04-27 Thread Carnë Draug
On 18 April 2010 03:59, Søren Hauberg wrote: >Hi All > > Carnë just mentioned that SourceForge blocks users from certain > countries. They do this to comply with US export regulations. As a > project administrator I can disable this blocking. This, however, > requires that I agree to the following

Re: [OctDev] Export control

2010-04-27 Thread Søren Hauberg
ons, 28 04 2010 kl. 03:00 +0200, skrev David Bateman: > > Can we please deal with 1) before dealing with 2) ? > > > If telling you that you can't get around it is dealing with it, then > consider it dealt with. Will do :-) Thanks for clearing up this stuff Søren

Re: [OctDev] Export control

2010-04-27 Thread Søren Hauberg
ons, 28 04 2010 kl. 02:52 +0200, skrev David Bateman: > I think you'll find every European country has signed this treaty... > Sorry, this one you can't blame on the US and it also wouldn't help to > migrate octave-forge somewhere else as we'd still be subject to the > wassenaar treaty. Well,

Re: [OctDev] Export control

2010-04-27 Thread Søren Hauberg
ons, 28 04 2010 kl. 02:37 +0200, skrev David Bateman: > Soren, I'd say you can pretty safely say the Octave isn't using > cyptography for the purposes of the source-forge export control check box. Okay, thanks for the detailed reply. I have updated the project settings to reflect this. Thanks Sø

Re: [OctDev] Export control

2010-04-27 Thread David Bateman
Søren Hauberg wrote: > tir, 27 04 2010 kl. 19:20 -0400, skrev Carnë Draug: > >> On 27 April 2010 17:11, Søren Hauberg wrote: >> tor, 22 04 2010 kl. 07:38 +0200, skrev David Bateman: >> > Octave includes the MD5 hashing algorithm and >> uses /dev/random if >> > av

Re: [OctDev] Export control

2010-04-27 Thread David Bateman
Søren Hauberg wrote: > Personally, I find the US Export control to be stupid at best, but I am > not going to break it. I am also ridiculously low on time, so I am not > going to spend hundreds of hours migrating to a different host unless we > really have to. > Soren, The EC export control rul

Re: [OctDev] Export control

2010-04-27 Thread David Bateman
Carnë Draug wrote: > On 27 April 2010 17:11, Søren Hauberg wrote: > > >> tor, 22 04 2010 kl. 07:38 +0200, skrev David Bateman: >> >>> Octave includes the MD5 hashing algorithm and uses /dev/random if >>> available in the core of Octave and there is an implementation of SHA1 >>> in the octa

Re: [OctDev] Export control

2010-04-27 Thread Søren Hauberg
tir, 27 04 2010 kl. 19:20 -0400, skrev Carnë Draug: > On 27 April 2010 17:11, Søren Hauberg wrote: > tor, 22 04 2010 kl. 07:38 +0200, skrev David Bateman: > > Octave includes the MD5 hashing algorithm and > uses /dev/random if > > available in the core of Octave and

Re: [OctDev] Export control

2010-04-27 Thread Carnë Draug
On 27 April 2010 17:11, Søren Hauberg wrote: > tor, 22 04 2010 kl. 07:38 +0200, skrev David Bateman: > > Octave includes the MD5 hashing algorithm and uses /dev/random if > > available in the core of Octave and there is an implementation of SHA1 > > in the octave-forge package general.. These are

Re: [OctDev] Export control

2010-04-27 Thread Søren Hauberg
tor, 22 04 2010 kl. 07:38 +0200, skrev David Bateman: > Octave includes the MD5 hashing algorithm and uses /dev/random if > available in the core of Octave and there is an implementation of SHA1 > in the octave-forge package general.. These are about the only crypto > like functions that I know

Re: [OctDev] Export control

2010-04-21 Thread David Bateman
Søren Hauberg wrote: > Hi All > > Carnë just mentioned that SourceForge blocks users from certain > countries. They do this to comply with US export regulations. As a > project administrator I can disable this blocking. This, however, > requires that I agree to the following text: > > This

Re: [OctDev] Export control

2010-04-21 Thread Carnë Draug
I'm not 100% sure (I'm still waiting for an answer from the sourceforge engineering team), but I think people from such countries would still be blocked from filling bug reports, commenting, making commits or request features since it seems they can't legally register in sourceforge. Carnë --

[OctDev] Export control

2010-04-18 Thread Søren Hauberg
Hi All Carnë just mentioned that SourceForge blocks users from certain countries. They do this to comply with US export regulations. As a project administrator I can disable this blocking. This, however, requires that I agree to the following text: This project does NOT incorporate, acces