Like it or not, Theo is having a good laugh ..

Gonzalo Nemmi gnemmi at gmail.com
Sat Oct 9 17:39:18 UTC 2010


El 09/10/2010 02:06 p.m., b. f. escribió:
>> "Surrilous" isn't an English word, nor an obvious typo of one, so I
>> have no idea what you mean here.
>
> He probably meant "scurrilous", which seems obvious to me.  Look, can
> we move on now?  Yes, export restrictions will apply, in the U.S. and
> -- what seems to have been overlooked in this thread -- _elsewhere_,

Not really ... _elsewhere_ was always on my mind as the lincese also 
applies to re-exports from a foreign destination...

> regardless of the license text.  The Canadians who were commenting
> unfavorably on U.S. laws may want to look over their own controls,
>
> http://www.international.gc.ca/controls-controles/assets/pdfs/documents/exportcontrols2007-en.pdf

They already know:
http://www.openbsd.com/crypto.html#why
"The cryptographic software components which we use currently were 
written in Argentina, Australia, Canada, Germany, Greece, Norway, and 
Sweden."

The fact that Argentina´s "Jefatura de Gabinete de Ministros" is hosting 
a mirror is not a coincidence:

ftp://openbsd.noc.jgm.gov.ar/pub/OpenBSD

> which leave them open to prosecution if they are exporting some
> software that might appear innocuous.  The same can be said for many
> other countries.  We're not going to resolve these problems in this
> thread.
>
>
> b.
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