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Mozilla Firefox Cleared of U.S Export Rules
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| Vendors with normal software containing encryption are required to
| file for a license exception, but that regulation offers an
| exemption to open source vendors.
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| However, that exemption is nullified if the source code is
| distributed to any of the countries on the U.S embargo list, such
| as Cuba, Iran or North Korea. Under the open source export
| exemption, the project isn't supposed to have knowledge of
| distribution to any of the embargoed countries, Anderson said.
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http://www.internetnews.com/government/article.php/3839831/Mozilla+Firefox+Cleared+of+US+Export+Rules.htm
Mozilla Firefox Not In Violation of US Export Rules
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| "While the internet may know no borders, the US government does.
| There are a number of rules that affect software vendors,
| including encryption export regulations from the US Department of
| Commerce and export sanctions by the Department of Treasury. But
| what do you do when your application is open source and freely
| available to anyone in the world? Do the same the rules apply?
| It's a question that Mozilla asked the US government about. The
| answer they received could have profound implications not just for
| Firefox but for all open source software vendors. 'We really
| couldn't accept the notion that these government rules could
| jeopardize the participatory nature of an open source project, so
| we sought to challenge it,' Harvey Anderson, VP and General
| Counsel of Mozilla, told InternetNews.com. 'We argued that First
| Amendment free speech rights would prevail in this scenario. The
| government took our filing and then we got back a no-violation
| letter, which is fantastic.'"
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http://slashdot.org/story/09/09/18/234248/Mozilla-Firefox-Not-In-Violation-of-US-Export-Rules
Recent:
Mozilla Foundation speeds up Firefox development
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| Mozilla has switched to a quick-paced "sprint" cycle for Firefox
| that it hopes will bring new features to users faster, the
| company's browser architect said today.
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http://www.computerworlduk.com/technology/development/software/news/index.cfm?RSS&newsid=16623
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