It might not be the Canadian side of the law preventing or excluding the contributions of US citizens, it may be the US Export Laws. If I recall correctly, exporting high cryptographic material outside of the US is illegal as they are considered munitions. That would preclude any US Citizen (or other legal resident) from contributing to any project outside of the US that deals with encryption of a certain magnitude.
I also recall that the laws just changed and it was unclear what, if any contributions, US Citizens could make to the code. FreeSwan archives and/or any other IPSec list to see specifics. As usual, I am NOT a lawyer, nor do I pretend to be one during the day. ;) --Pat On Thu, 14 Feb 2002, guitarlynn wrote: > On Thursday 14 February 2002 15:45, Serge Caron wrote: > > > As a Canadian citizen, I do not know what you are taking about. We > > have NO restrictions on cryptography and our copyright laws are > > pretty much in sync with the international community. > > <snip> > > Here is some dope on the Canadian Export Control List > > (http://axion.physics.ubc.ca/ECL.html). However, if you have > > specifics, I will have a lawyer research this. > > OK, thanks for that info. Around six months ago I was looking into > helping a couple of Canadian-based projects and they implictely > stated that due to the US laws on cryt., they appreciated the offer > but wished to decline due to the possible conflict. > > Things may not be true for any other projects and they may have > changed their minds, but since some of these laws have passed > within the US I have to respect their concerns :) > > Thanks once again for enlightening my concern! > _______________________________________________ Leaf-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-devel
