SourceForge forbids download

[Aidin Gharibnavaz]

Dear Wine developers,

SourceForge blocked download for some countries by default, such as Iran.
(More detail can be found
here<https://sourceforge.net/blog/some-good-news-SourceForge-removes-blanket-blocking/>
)

So, if it's not illegal to you to let Iranians download your software,
please go to the SourceForge's ProjectAdmin, and set the ExportControl
option, to let us enjoy the great work of yours.

Thanks.

[Juan Lang]

Hi Aidin,

On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 11:01 AM, Aidin Gharibnavaz <aidin(a)aidinhut.com> wrote:
> SourceForge blocked download for some countries by default, such as Iran.
> (More detail can be found here)
>
> So, if it's not illegal to you to let Iranians download your software,
> please go to the SourceForge's ProjectAdmin, and set the ExportControl
> option, to let us enjoy the great work of yours.

While it may or not be illegal, and I am not a lawyer, I believe it
isn't legal to allow a download from the US without having applied for
a review first:
http://www.bis.doc.gov/encryption/encfaqs6_17_02.html

Wine includes general encryption algorithms, not just authentication,
and doesn't have restrictions on key length.  While many of the
cryptographic primitives were obtained from freely-available source
code, I don't know whether things like certificate verification fall
under the review requirements.

Hence, I don't believe that we can enable downloads from Iran on
SourceForge.  It's entirely possible to get the Wine source via other
means, however.

Sorry for the hassle.
--Juan

[Marcus Meissner]

On Mon, Feb 06, 2012 at 10:31:01PM +0330, Aidin Gharibnavaz wrote:
> Dear Wine developers,
>
> SourceForge blocked download for some countries by default, such as Iran.
> (More detail can be found
> here<https://sourceforge.net/blog/some-good-news-SourceForge-removes-blanket-blocking/>
> )
>
> So, if it's not illegal to you to let Iranians download your software,
> please go to the SourceForge's ProjectAdmin, and set the ExportControl
> option, to let us enjoy the great work of yours.

Wine does contain cryptographic algorithms which are object to US export
control, so making it available for all from sourceforge would make SF
and us liable.

That said, there might be more than just the SourceForge download page
to get Wine sources which do not enforce Iran blocking, see
http://www.winehq.org/download/
for some links to try.

Ciao, Marcus