El mié, 14-05-2008 a las 12:50 -0500, William A. Rowe, Jr. escribió: > Santiago Gala wrote: > > I understood it went to the NOTICE file because it was a mandatory > > Notice (under the US export laws), akin to a mandatory attribution > > under copyright laws. I'm using the distinction that Roy said: all > > that should go into an About... dialog box belongs to NOTICE. And the > > export notification looks like the prototypical About... stuff. > > The user notice is not "mandatory" in the sense you were thinking. The BIS > notification by the ASF is mandatory. The warning is for the benefit of our > poor downstream users who don't realize they are handling crypto code, and > might accidentally send it off to a colleague in an embargoed country, or > unknowingly use it in violation of the laws of their country (yes, this > is still true in some places). > > It belongs in README and also anywhere such as a download page where users > can be expected to look first as they obtain it. This notice is for their > own protection, not ours. >
OK, I see. I thought the notice was mandatory, and not our policy. I'll patch to site to get it clear. Still, shindig's README is very informal and I can't see how such a notice fits without significantly changing its character and possibly scaring potential users: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/shindig/trunk/README It looks way more natural in our NOTICE file, where any user would look for information before (re)distributing: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/shindig/trunk/NOTICE Anyhow, this is actually beginning to be off-topic here, feel free to answer privately. Regards Santiago > Bill > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- Santiago Gala http://memojo.com/~sgala/blog/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
