Re: [Bitcoin-development] Hosting of compiled bitcoin client

2012-10-14 Thread Mike Hearn
The laws in question are OFAC sanctions: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Foreign_Assets_Control The specific acts that enable this are varied. In theory they apply to any US citizen or resident. The issue is not cryptography, it's "trade with sanctioned countries", period, where making fil

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Hosting of compiled bitcoin client

2012-10-14 Thread Gregory Maxwell
On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 6:09 PM, Christian Decker wrote: > Being an international team I'm pretty sure we can find someone who is in a > more permissive country. > Would someone knowledgeable point us to the specific laws, so that we can > look it up in our respective jurisdiction? The only restr

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Hosting of compiled bitcoin client

2012-10-14 Thread Christian Decker
Being an international team I'm pretty sure we can find someone who is in a more permissive country. Would someone knowledgeable point us to the specific laws, so that we can look it up in our respective jurisdiction? Regards, Chris On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 12:02 AM, Luke-Jr wrote: > On Sunday,

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Hosting of compiled bitcoin client

2012-10-14 Thread Luke-Jr
On Sunday, October 14, 2012 8:52:33 PM Kyle Henderson wrote: > Given that sourceforge has shown to restrict access to a number of > countries at the request of the USA This needs some clarification. If the USA has "requested" it, then presumably there's some legality involved, and our US develope

[Bitcoin-development] Hosting of compiled bitcoin client

2012-10-14 Thread Kyle Henderson
Hi team, Given that sourceforge has shown to restrict access to a number of countries at the request of the USA, would hosting of the compiled client on https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/downloads be an alternative that would be considered? It seems like a logical alternative to me that requires