Re: [CentOS] [OT] RedHat's licence, CentOS rebuild

[danieldk@xxxxxxxxx]

Karanbir Singh wrote:
> I didnt think the GPL was influenced by internal US politics :) - and I
>  hope that I am not wrong.

I *think* that he is referring to crypto export policies. The current US
export policies (and that of many other countries through the Wassenaar
agreement) allow to export opensource crypto code, except:

"(2) You may not knowingly export or reexport source code or products
developed with this source code to Cuba, Iran, Iraq, Libya, North Korea,
Sudan or Syria."

Source: http://www.epic.org/crypto/export_controls/regs_1_00.html

Though I would not be suprised that this list has been changed in the
meanwhile. Besides that some countries still have very strict crypto
export policies, e.g. France. A complete survey of country laws can be
found at:

http://rechten.uvt.nl/koops/cryptolaw/

-- Daniel

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