Re: [gentoo-project] Merging Trustees and Council / Developers and Foundation

[Matthew Thode <prometheanfire@gentoo.org>]

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On 01/09/2017 11:39 PM, Daniel Campbell wrote:
> On 01/06/2017 02:48 AM, Andreas K. Huettel wrote:
>> Am Donnerstag, 5. Januar 2017, 17:14:51 CET schrieb William L. Thomson Jr.:
>>
>>> Keep in mind the US is founded on freedom of speech. An open source project
>>> could be argued along the same lines as freedom of speech and expression.
>>> Not to mention an argument could be made for technical benefit of all, etc.
>>>
>>
>> As someone routinely dealing (outside Gentoo) with technology that falls under 
>> US export control, I can assure you that freedom of speech has absolutely 
>> nothing to do with this topic.
>>
> What type of software would that be, if you don't mind me asking? Is it
> something specific with US <-> Germany (that's your home country right?)
> laws?
> 
> The only thing I've ever seen was the US's classification of encryption
> as munitions and, for a while, banned its export.
> 
> Clearly, that didn't work out for them and encryption is more important
> than ever. What else does the US try to control in software?
> 

Anything to do with rockets counts.  That was fun to learn :D

(side note, I'm gonna reply in bulk to this thread soon)

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Matthew Thode (prometheanfire)


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