[lsb-discuss] LSB conf call notes for 2008-05-14

Jeff Licquia jeff at licquia.org
Thu May 15 07:44:09 PDT 2008


Carlos Manuel Duclos Vergara wrote:
> After talking to our legal department, they made very clear that we cannot
> include any cryptographic code developed in the US because that will make
> us subject of US export regulations. This means, that we cannot develop a wrapper
> for NSS inside Qt (ie, no easy conversion for software written by using our api).
> Since we are not the only software providers outside the US, this will affect other
> software companies too. Therefore asking everybody outside the US to become
> subjects of US export regulations at once, seems like a huge imposition.
> So, our vote goes against using NSS as a default in LSB.

Aren't you already?  How do you provide these services under Windows or 
Mac OS X?



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