[Lazarus] Sourceforge and Cuba

[Vincent Snijders]

Hans-Peter Diettrich schreef:
> Vincent Snijders schrieb:
> 
>>> SourceForge seem to have changed the policy regarding the block - 
>>> perhaps the Free Pascal project and Lazarus should look into these 
>>> changes:
>>>
>>> http://sourceforge.net/blog/some-good-news-sourceforge-removes-blanket-blocking/ 
>>
>>
>>
>> I am not sure that FPC and therefore Lazarus (we offer FPC packages in 
>> and with Lazarus packages and installers) is not subject to US export 
>> regulation, if exported from some US SourceForge server.
> 
> The export is disallowed by international contracts, i.e. not only US 
> servers are affected. But only the export of strong encryption code is 
> regulated, no other software is affected.
> 
> So somebody should reset the "export" flag for Lazarus (and FPC) on SF. 
> Other servers may follow...

The literal text is:
This project does NOT incorporate, access, call upon, or otherwise use 
encryption of any kind, including, but not limited to, open source 
algorithms and/or calls to encryption in the operating system or 
underlying platform

The current (default) option is:
This project DOES incorporate, access, call upon or otherwise use 
encryption. Posting of open source encryption is controlled under U.S. 
Export Control Classification Number "ECCN" 5D002 and must be 
simultaneously reported by email to the U.S. government. You are 
responsible for submitting this email report to the U.S. government in 
accordance with procedures described in: 
http://www.bis.doc.gov/encryption/PubAvailEncSourceCodeNotify.html and 
Section 740.13(e) of the Export Administration Regulations ("EAR") 15 
C.F.R. Parts 730-772.

Because FPC contains for example a blowfish unit, 
http://svn.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/trunk/packages/fcl-base/src/blowfish.pp?view=markup,
I think I cannot choose the first option.

Vincent