That's only applicable if your company is based in the U.S. The Apache Software Foundation is located in the U.S. and "exports" cryptography to all the world. Based on US law it has to go through this "paperwork". If your country has similar (IMO ineffective) laws you may have to do similar work.
On 03.02.2008 11:48:30 Litrik De Roy wrote: > Hi, > > Tika uses some cryptography code from the Bouncy Castle through > PDFBox. In https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TIKA-118 some > paperwork was done for the US exports regulation compliance. > > What is the impact of all this when I build something on top of Tika > (like an Eclipse plugin) and distribute it? > Since I would be re-exporting the crypto code, do I need to go through > all that paperwork as well? > > -- > Litrik De Roy > Norio ICT Consulting - http://www.norio.be/ Jeremias Maerki
