Re: Is is legal to download your software.

Jan Luehe (Jan.Luehe@eng.sun.com)
Tue, 23 Mar 1999 09:57:20 -0800 (PST)

Message-Id: <199903231757.JAA04992@laguna.eng.sun.com>
Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 09:57:20 -0800 (PST)
From: Jan Luehe <Jan.Luehe@eng.sun.com>
Subject: Re: Is is legal to download your software.
To: java-security@java.sun.com, dylan@boulder.nist.gov

Dylan:

> A friend who works for a French software company asked me to download
you
> encription software from your site
> http://java.sun.com/products/jce/index.html . There appear to be some
> export restrictions on this software. Is it legal for my friend in France
> to download this software? Is it legal for me to download the software and
> mail it to him in France?

Both would be illegal and in violation with U.S. export
controls on encryption.

You should refer your friend to

http://java.sun.com/products/jce/jce12_providers.html

for a list of JCE clean room implementations and compliant
providers outside the U.S. and Canada, that he might be
able to download.

Jan