<div dir="ltr">David,<div><br></div><div>While I agree that ideally we want to release as much as we legally can as fully open source, I imagine there are many technologies that open source space organizations like Mach 30 (and even groups working in other areas including UAVs and communications) for which the US government in particular will not be willing to clear for public release. In those cases, we are left with four choices:</div>
<div><br></div><div>1. Abandon the project(s) in question (and possibly our organization's mission)</div><div>2. Lobby for significant changes to export controls</div><div>3. Simply ignore the law and do what we want</div>
<div>4. License our projects as openly as we can, enforcing export controls as required on a project by project basis</div><div><br></div><div>For us at Mach 30, we have decided option 1 is simply unacceptable. Our mission is too important to the board and our volunteers. As a 501c3, Mach 30 cannot take up option 2 (and honestly even if we could, I am afraid we could lobby until we were blue in the face and still not get clearance to release the full plans for anything resembling a launch vehicle). Option 3 is also unacceptable to Mach 30, as the risks of unpayable fines and jail time are just too great. Which is how we get to our approach to export controls - Option 4. You can see more details (including several longer term plans for moving as much technology as possible to fully open source within the regulatory environment of ITAR and friends) here at the Mach 30 Export Control Task Force web page - <a href="http://mach30.org/ectf/">http://mach30.org/ectf/</a></div>
<div><br></div><div> -J</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 5:42 PM, Wheeler, David A <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dwheeler@ida.org" target="_blank">dwheeler@ida.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">For export control you really want approval for public release (by the “cognizant U.S. government department or agency”).<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Trying for an “export control license” goes down the wrong trail, because such a license is designed to allow *<b>limited</b>* distribution. Which isn’t what you want.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><u></u><u></u></font></span></span></p>
<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">--- David A. Wheeler<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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