Keith M Wesolowski wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 20, 2007 at 05:56:17PM -0700, Danek Duvall wrote:
>
>> I don't know of any plans to integrate emacs, but vim is currently being
>> held up for, of all things, export control. <insert standard rant about
>> lawyers here, at fifty-times normal volume>
>
> I guess I'd like to understand why Sun is allowed to do this.
I would expect whoever owned the servers hosting opensolaris.org, and
thus the resulting legal liability for software distributed from it,
to have some involvement in ensuring the relevant laws of the jurisdiction
it's hosting it in to be followed. At the moment, that's Sun & the laws
of California/the United States. One could easily imagine a future where
that was a non-profit foundation and a jurisdiction with less restrictions
on common cryptography, and Sun would then not have the same role, but
we're not there today.
Sun can't stop any site they don't own from hosting vim packages for
OpenSolaris, so those who find this repressive could apply to places
such as genunix, blastwave or sunfreeware to host them in the meantime.
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-Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
