All comments noted and from that point of view makes sense. Tom
P.S. >> As I said to Mike, lobby your Government, that is what needs fixing. Well as you and I have the same government and it has a few things on it’s plate just now will give that a miss :-) On 13 Dec 2018, at 13:34, Bill Somerville <[email protected]> wrote: > On 13/12/2018 13:19, Tom Melvin wrote: >> Quick question, if the wsjt download site was hosted outside the US then I >> believe the export restrictions do not apply - users in the US are importing >> the software. >> >> Are there thoughts on this and including the appropriate libraries within >> the installer for the future. >> >> Tom >> >> -- >> >> 73’s >> >> Tom >> GM8MJV (IO85) >> >> > Hi Tom, > > WSJT-X downloads are hosted on the project web site which is based at > Princeton and on SourceForge which has many servers Worldwide including in > NA. Giving up either of those resources is not likely to happen, mainly but > not solely for cost reasons I expect, SF is free for open source projects > like WSJT-X and I suspect the Princeton Physics Dept. server is too. > > Hosting outside NA might be possible if the OpenSSL libraries are > "clean-room" developed outside of the U.S., I believe this may be the case > but I would have to check. > > There are some projects that do bundle OpenSSL, I believe it is possible to > sign various U.S. export documentation to allow that but I would think that > doing so would shift responsibility to us to ensure that export restrictions > are not broken, a responsibility we do not want to bear, nor any cost in > processing such paperwork. > > IMHO this is not worth bothering about, it is easy to install OpenSSL on > Windows if your jurisdiction allows it and we give manual workarounds for > those that can't, so those in EP or P5 lands etc. (although I haven't seen P5 > on yet) can use WSJT-X without annoying the US government. > > As I said to Mike, lobby your Government, that is what needs fixing. > > 73 > Bill > G4WJS. > > > > _______________________________________________ > wsjt-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wsjt-devel > _______________________________________________ wsjt-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wsjt-devel
