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Re: EU Export Rating

From: Andy Levy <andy.levy_at_gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2010 10:41:47 -0400

On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 10:40, David Balazic
<David.Balazic_at_hermes-softlab.com> wrote:
> 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 ;-)

What if he memorizes the source code inside the EU, leaves the EU, and
then retypes it all?

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