Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uunet!mcsun!unido!gmdzi!haertig From: haertig@gmdzi.UUCP (Hermann Haertig) Newsgroups: comp.os.mach Subject: Re: Mach available outside US? How to order? Message-ID: <1704@gmdzi.UUCP> Date: 20 Nov 89 14:28:44 GMT References: <1989Nov14.040632.19957@comp.vuw.ac.nz> Organization: GMD, Sankt Augustin, F. R. Germany Lines: 70 From article <1989Nov14.040632.19957@comp.vuw.ac.nz>, by jonathan@comp.vuw.ac.nz (Jonathan): > Last I heard, Mach was not (yet) avaiable outside the US. I am told > this has changed. Is Mach source really available to academic > institutions outside the US without excessive export compliance > rigmarole? > > If so, what is the best way to obtain Mach ? When I visited various US-universities in May/June this year, I tried to find out about availability of MACH - sources for Europeans. I got two types of aswers: 1) such as: |From: Rick.Rashid@CS.CMU.EDU |Newsgroups: comp.os.mach |Subject: Re: Mach available outside US? How to order? |Message-ID: |Date: 16 Nov 89 21:56:18 GMT |Sender: rfr@RFR.MACH.CS.CMU.EDU |Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA |Lines: 10 |Posted: Thu Nov 16 22:56:18 1989 | |Mach source has always been available outside the US to anyone |who wanted to obtain for themselves the appropriate export license. |A number of companies have, in fact, done so. Originally we at CMU |did not want to incur the expense and hassle of obtaining an export |license for ourselves, New is: | but we have recently been encouraged by funding |sources to do so. We are now in the process of obtaining an export |license and as soon as that process is complete we will begin to |process directly requests for export of Mach. | |-Rick 2) MACH source is on Munitions Control Act (whatever that is) together with such things as missile technology, nuclear energy etc. This implies it cannot be exported outside US without violating US law. Even foreign nationals staying in US msut not have access to it. (I have no written statement, but only telefone and personal conversations.) Can anybody clear that up? - Was/is MACH source on Munitions Control Act? - If so, which consequences does that have on availability of MACH source to Japanese and Europeans? - Does the following apply for sources? |From: alan@mtxinu.COM (Alan Tobey) |Newsgroups: comp.os.mach |Subject: Re: Mach Sources |Keywords: Supported Distribution |Message-ID: <1055@mtxinu.UUCP> |Date: 18 Nov 89 18:19:06 GMT |Organization: mt Xinu, Berkeley |Lines: 37 |Posted: Sat Nov 18 19:19:06 1989 | |===== | |We expect the distribution will be exportable anywhere UNIX is, though |perhaps with a short delay if our pending applications don't complete |in time for the January release. | |=== hermann haertig German National Research Center for Computer Science (GMD)