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"Sarkar, Surajit" <[email protected]> · Thu, 14 Jan 2010 10:16:17 -0500

May be that should change. A lot of facilities are using it and probably more
will be - why make available all details to any one without at least some check
as to who is requesting the information. 

Mau be this issue should be revisited.

Surajit 

-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On
Behalf Of Andrew Johnson
Sent: Wednesday, January 13, 2010 5:36 PM
To: EPICS tech-talk
Subject: Re: epics on launchpad!

Hi Tom,

Tom Pelaia II wrote:
>
> I'm surprised that Argonne legal doesn't have issues with the lack of
> export controls on Launchpad. Source Forge and Google both adhere to the
> export controls that ORNL (for example) uses to restrict technology
> distribution (which explicitly includes software).

Actually export is not a problem according to the advice we were given when we 
open-sourced EPICS.  IIRC we were told something to the effect that the EAR-99 
export restrictions (which we used to have to follow) don't apply to software 
that is freely available for anyone to download.  The APS web-server doesn't 
have any rules that prevent access to the /epics/download directory from 
restricted countries, and we weren't required to put anything in the license 
about export limitations either.

- Andrew
-- 
The best FOSS code is written to be read by other humans -- Harald Welte

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