Re: Problem serving one-click installer to Syria

On 15/06/2010 05:25 م, Selena Deckelmann wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 6:57 AM, Magnus Hagander<magnus@hagander.net>  wrote:
>
>
>>> The situation is ridiculous I know - it's easy to get OpenSSL from any
>>> number of places of course. As of this morning, we have people looking
>>> into the legal issues to see if there is a way that we (EnterpriseDB
>>> and the community) can make all our downloads available universally
>>> without putting anyone at risk of prosecution. We're also talking to
>>> other large organisations involved in Open Source to see if/how they
>>> deal with this within the projects they work on.
>>>
>> AFAIK, open source *communities* don't generally do anything at all
>> about this. We can restrict access to any of our servers that run in
>> the US, but as long as there are mirrors and the licence is open,
>> anybody outside the US can just redistribute it. So it sounds like th
>> easy fix is to just mirror it onto the community mirror network.
>>
> +1
>
> I'm going to ping Eben Moglen (lawyer at the software freedom law
> center) about this on our behalf. The few people I've talked to who
> have had to deal with similar issues think that crypto built from open
> standards no longer are subject to prosecution, and whether the
> software originated in the US or not, we are free to redistribute.
>
> -selena
>
Nice guys, that's good news


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