Free BSD 6.3 Export Control Classification

[Jerry McAllister]

On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 10:18:32AM -0600, Chocas, Connie S wrote:

>  I could not find anything referencing export controls for FreeBSD.  You may 
> find the following link for Apache Software Foundation products helpful.  
> This is the type is information that is needed to determine what is required 
> to legally export software.  If FreeBSD has any cryptographic functions 
> there are export restrictions that need to be considered.
> http://www.apache.org/licenses/exports/#matrix

I don't know about the legal details and I don't have time to read up
about it, but I would note that FreeBSD is already exported by default
since it is copied by people in many countries and there are mirrors
in other countries.    It is not explicitly exported by the FreeBSD
Foundation, but its movement around the world is quite thorough, done
by those who use it.

There was a time that the encryption issue made things difficult for
some people using FreeBSD, but the Gov standards were changed and
the issue quieted down.   I don't know if it is solved.

////jerry

> 
> Connie
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jerry McAllister [mailto:jerrymc at msu.edu]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2008 9:12 AM
> To: darko gavrilovic
> Cc: Chocas, Connie S; freebsd-questions at FreeBSD.org
> Subject: Re: Free BSD 6.3 Export Control Classification
> 
> On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 06:54:39PM -0400, darko gavrilovic wrote:
> 
> > http://www.freebsd.org/where.html
> 
> I don't see anywhere in that reference that the question is answered
> or even alluded to.   It does give information on how to obtain a
> copy of FreeBSD, but nothing about ECC.
> 
> ////jerry
> 
> 
> >
> > On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 4:54 PM, Chocas, Connie S <cschoca at sandia.gov>wrote:
> >
> > > I would appreciate you assistance in providing the U.S. Commerce
> > > Department Export Control Classification for FreeBSD 6.3.
> > > Thank you,
> > >
> > > Connie Chocas
> > > Sandia National Laboratories
> > > Classification and Export Control
> > > Phone: (505) 844-5982; Fax: (505) 284-4927
> > > Email:  cschoca at sandia.gov
> > >
> > >
> > >
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