Hi, We want to include wine software and bundle our software to sell to China. Does wine software (1.0.1) contain any encryption software in it? What encryption algorithm is used in wine? Does encryption algorithm used in wine prevent us to sell our software to China (subject to US exporting law)? Thanks.
I can't answer your questions. But I am very curious on the status/prospects of Linux usage in China. Would you share some of your understanding about it? Is your software institutional or personal? I am based in China doing investments. I and my associates all use Linux and Wine to run securities analysis software. But my understanding is that we are the minorities. Most others in the industry use Windows as all software developers develop Windows software. I think they are crazy, so I advocate whenever possible about using/developing Linux. And they think I am crazy.
linpf wrote:> Hi, > > We want to include wine software and bundle our software to sell to China. > Does wine software (1.0.1) contain any encryption software in it? > > What encryption algorithm is used in wine? > > Does encryption algorithm used in wine prevent us to sell our software to China (subject to US exporting law)? >You really should get an export lawyer. This is WAY beyond the scope of this project. However, Wine is being used in Hong Kong and mainland China from what I've read here. James McKenzie
i don't think gnu/open source software can be restricted by US or UE (or any other country for that matter). isn't this US (land of the free that wish to free the oppressed) law restricted to companies and government institutions? thou i think i can answer one of your question, maybe with another question: what encryption? you have all the source! no "proprietary" software here. anyway like linpf "I am very curious on the status/prospects of Linux usage in China. " and specially this question!
Just to be specific.
When I look at the release note of wine 1.1.41 (attached). I see these SHA-256,
SHA-384 and SHA-512 algorithms there. Am I able to bundle wine software because
these algorithms may contain "cryptographic function" and our bundled
software is then Illegal for exporting to China.
The Wine development release 1.1.41 is now available.
What's new in this release:
* Support for SHA-256, SHA-384, and SHA-512 algorithms.
On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 21:47, linpf <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:> Just to be specific. > > When I look at the release note of wine 1.1.41 (attached). I see these SHA-256, SHA-384 and SHA-512 algorithms there. Am I able to bundle wine software because these algorithms may contain "cryptographic function" and our bundled software is then Illegal for exporting to China. >
Wine is a user of crypt functions. So wine itself does not have export problems. Now will all parts of wine work with the crypt functions libs missing most likely some stuff will not. Correct question is what wine dependancies that wine can live without are on the wrong side of USA law. That is something past what I can answer.