On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 01:41:02PM +0900, Satoshi Kawase (Fukuoka) wrote: > I work for a major Japanese electronics company and we would like include > Debian into one of our new products. > > The trouble we are facing is that because Japan is one of the countries in > the wassenaar arrangement exports of cryptographic software count as > "munitions" and hence must be passed through the Japanese version of the BXA > (Bureau of Industry and Security).
This may be true, but as I understand it, the Wassenaar arrangement doesn't specifically cover software. Note that the Debian non-US server (which was intended to circumvent the US controls) is in a Wassenaar arrangement country. It was merely the additional US restrictions that caused a problem. dave... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
