[Python-Dev] Support for Encrypted Zip as python scripts (original) (raw)

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Mon Aug 24 16:46:09 CEST 2009

On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 1:54 AM, Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven<asmodai at in-nomine.org> wrote:

-On [20090823 22:10], Guido van Rossum (guido at python.org) wrote:

Also, I suppose there could be (US) export problems with the code, so it would have to be optional (and we might not be able to build it into binaries we distribute from python.org). For all I know the website and repository are both located @ the XS4All colocation, so how does US export problems apply? It would apply if the box would've been hosted in the USA, but they're not for all I know. It's one of the reasons FreeBSD had their ebones repository located in Zuid Afrika back in the day. Nowadays they can just include all the relevant bits in the repository. So I wonder how applicable the entire US export restriction still is nowadays. In short: I don't think we have much to worry about.

Are you a lawyer? Do you know the legal history of Python distributions and the US export laws? It's not so easy -- for one, the PSF (a US foundation) owns the copyright.

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