On Tue, Dec 19, 2000 at 04:38:53PM -0800, Tony O'Yang wrote:
> Hi, we are a co-location / web hosting company thinking about bundling
> OpenSSH into our web servers. Are there any exportation issues if we plan to
> have international customers who will be accessing remotely into their
> servers located here in the US using OpenSSH. (Customer would have the
> client-side program, and are located, say, in England.)
>
> Is OpenSSH protected under GPL, and therefore the exportation laws on
> encryption do not apply?
You don't indicate which country you are concerned with. A quick whois run
indicates that you are in the Peoples' Republic of California (PRC).
See the OpenSSH web page for some information. http://www.openssh.com/
There is a small amount of information related to crypto on the Gnu
Privacy Guard web page. http://www.gnupg.org/links.html
Also Bert-Jaap Koops' Crypto Law Survey, a survey of national and
international law on cryptography and its use by private individuals. It
includes a summary of the US export
rules. http://cwis.kub.nl/~frw/people/koops/lawsurvy.htm
However, as you are in the PRC, neither is a substitute for consulting
with your own attorney.
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