Carnë Draug wrote: > On 28 April 2010 12:23, David Bateman <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Errr, except that there exists the concept of reexportation. If Octave is >> deemed as a projet to reside in the US (and I'd say that it does), >> reexportation in contravention of the export controls of the original >> country (For example US -> Portugal -> Cuba) is also illegal by >> international treaty... So no dice there either >> >> > > Hmm... I didn't knew this. Could you please clarify me some things on > this point, then? Does this means that contributions I make for > projects that reside in the USA, such as octave-forge, are bound in > some way to the USA (even tough I am not), and that if in the case > they one day end up being covered by a rule that blocks their > exportation, they will be bound by such rules and I won't be allowed > to distribute it myself by some other means? >
I'm not a lawyer, but have dealt with a number of them for this type of issue, so take what I say with a grain of salt. My understand is that your contribution as a single piece would be considered as being covered under the rules of the country in which you reside. So if you give code to Octave-forge even though you are in the US, as you are resident in Ireland this would be a "deemed export" between Ireland and the US and covered by Irish law (so the EC directive 346/2006 and whatever additional text Ireland adds) Octave-forge in its entirety would be considered as a US product even though some of its constituent parts are from elsewhere and so exporting octave-forge in its entirety to Cuba would be illegal even by you. However, nothing could stop you giving your contribution that is covered under Irish rules to a Cuban, and it'd be up to the Cuban to get the rest of octave-forge however they could. D. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Octave-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/octave-dev
