Crypto and export laws

2009-09-25 Thread Austin Bingham
I'm trying to get a handle on how python intersects with crypto-related export control laws in the US and elsewhere. My current understanding, per the PSF's wiki, is that any crypto related and potentially export-sensitive code is in the ssl wrapper, and that, in fact, this only links

Re: Crypto and export laws

2009-09-25 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
Austin Bingham wrote: I'm trying to get a handle on how python intersects with crypto-related export control laws in the US and elsewhere. My current understanding, per the PSF's wiki, is that any crypto related and potentially export-sensitive code is in the ssl wrapper, and that, in fact

Re: Crypto and export laws

2009-09-25 Thread Piet van Oostrum
M.-A. Lemburg m...@egenix.com (M-L) wrote: M-L Depending on how close a country follows the Wassenaar M-L Arrangement (http://www.wassenaar.org/) OpenSSL, Python M-L and all other open-source software falls under the M-L GENERAL SOFTWARE NOTE part 2.: M-L M-L The Lists do not control software

Re: Crypto and export laws

2009-09-25 Thread Mel
Piet van Oostrum wrote: M.-A. Lemburg m...@egenix.com (M-L) wrote: [ ... ] M-L M-L The Lists do not control software which is either: M-L 1. ... M-L 2. In the public domain. M-L [ ... ] But Python is not in the public domain. Open source != public domain. Public domain means there is no

Re: Crypto and export laws

2009-09-25 Thread Piet van Oostrum
Ben Finney ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au (BF) wrote: BF Piet van Oostrum p...@cs.uu.nl writes: But Python is not in the public domain. Open source != public domain. BF One always needs to be aware of what bizarro-world definitions these BF legalese documents are using for terms we might normally

Re: Crypto and export laws

2009-09-25 Thread Ben Finney
Piet van Oostrum p...@cs.uu.nl writes: But Python is not in the public domain. Open source != public domain. One always needs to be aware of what bizarro-world definitions these legalese documents are using for terms we might normally understand. However, in this case it seems fairly sane and :

Re: Crypto and export laws

2009-09-25 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
Piet van Oostrum wrote: M.-A. Lemburg m...@egenix.com (M-L) wrote: M-L Depending on how close a country follows the Wassenaar M-L Arrangement (http://www.wassenaar.org/) OpenSSL, Python M-L and all other open-source software falls under the M-L GENERAL SOFTWARE NOTE part 2.: M-L M-L