[lsb-discuss] LSB conf call notes for 2008-05-14
Jeff Licquia
jeff at licquia.org
Thu May 15 08:01:54 PDT 2008
Carlos Manuel Duclos Vergara wrote:
> On Thursday 15 May 2008 16:44:09 Jeff Licquia wrote:
>> Aren't you already? How do you provide these services under Windows or
>> Mac OS X?
>>
>
> We are not under US export regulation because:
> 1. There are no US citizens working on any of the OpenSSL Wrapper
> 2. OpenSSL is not under US export regulations
So you use OpenSSL under Windows and Mac OS X, then, and not their
respective native crypto APIs?
> And this is not only a commercial thing, distributions as debian will not ship anything
> that can be classified as under US export regulations. They have the non-us repositories
> but that requires that you provide two packages of your app, one with cryptography for the
> non-us and one without cryptography for the normal repository.
Actually, Debian got rid of non-US a while back; we ship libnss3,
openssl, gnupg, ssh, etc. in the same archives as the rest of the
distro. It probably makes a difference that we're under US export
regulations anyway, since the project got started in the USA and is
"owned" by a US non-profit.
Also, for what it's worth, Debian's system for compliance with the
export regulations was crafted with paid legal help, and has been cited
by the US government as a model program for export compliance.
I do understand, though, how you might not want to have to mess with all
that.
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