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RE: EU Export Rating

From: David Balazic <David.Balazic_at_hermes-softlab.com>
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2010 16:40:09 +0200

Simon Large wrote:
> On 14 April 2010 01:39, Andy Levy <andy.levy_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 17:24, Rocco, Rick
> <rick.rocco-jr_at_hp.com> wrote:
> >> Hi, I am an export compliance coordinator with HP.   I am currently
> >> reviewing applications for exportability from the EU.  
> Could you please
> >> provide the Export Control Rating for exports from the EU
> under the terms of
> >> the EU dual-use lists (EC Regulation 428/2009 as amended)
> for TortoiseSVN?

...

> > Do you understand what this software is and does in the first place?
> > The authentication used is dictated by the server TSVN connects to,
> > which is either Apache (using Basic or Digest authentication,
> > potentially over SSL - so you'll need to chase up that tree, not
> > here), svnserve (which does not have any encryption at all), or
> > svnserve tunneled over SSH (in which case you want to be checking on
> > the encryption used by your SSH service, not Subversion or
> > TortoiseSVN).
>
> Actually svnserve can use Cyrus SASL for encryption, but as Andy says
> this is not part of TSVN or even Subversion, and again it is open
> source so it is not exactly being exported.

If someone is located inside EU and has a copy of TSVN on a CD in his
pocket, and then he crosses the EU border, he "exported" TSVN.
It's bureaucracy logic. Has nothing to do with real logic ;-)

Regards,
David

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