[Discuss] Fwd: ITAR, public domain, and open source

[J. Simmons]

I have to say, I am surprised that their plan would really cover them  I
would expect any contribution by a US person to be an export (and given how
funny reexporting can be, I wouldn't be surprised if this changes much of
anything).

 -J


On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 2:28 PM, matt <matt at nycresistor.com> wrote:

> Ardupilot got around open sourcing their stuff by open sourcing from
> OUTSIDE of the US.  They have contributors in the US, but the projects ran
> from outside the US specifically to avoid ITAR issues.
>
> -Matt
>
>
> On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 2:18 PM, J. Simmons <jrs at mach30.org> wrote:
>
>> Not sure about floating point math on a chip (I don't have any experience
>> with that one way or the other), but it is the set of regulations that made
>> publishing PGP problematic for a while (if I recall correctly).  And it
>> impacts all sorts of things related to space flight (including rockets,
>> satellites, etc).Oh, and it the law that got Defense Distributed in the
>> news last spring (
>> http://nationalreview.com/corner/347899/state-department-requests-defense-distributed-remove-digital-blueprints-liberator-gun
>> ).
>>
>>  -J
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 2:10 PM, Bryan Bishop <kanzure at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 12:52 PM, Tom Igoe <tom.igoe at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> What is ITAR?
>>>>
>>>
>>> It's the thing that throws you in prison if you open source a chip that
>>> does floating point math.
>>>
>>>
>>> - Bryan
>>> http://heybryan.org/
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