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Commit 80d5c414 authored by Emanuele Aina's avatar Emanuele Aina
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export-controls: Clarify notification exemption conditions


Try to clarify when the notification requirements for use of
cryptographic functionality apply.

Signed-off-by: Emanuele Aina's avatarEmanuele Aina <emanuele.aina@collabora.com>
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......@@ -379,6 +379,12 @@ duly recognized international standards body (e.g., IEEE, IETF, ISO, ITU, ETSI,
Accordingly to the Linux Foundation, this
[removes the notification requirements for most products based on OSS projects](https://www.linuxfoundation.org/resources/publications/understanding-us-export-controls-with-open-source-projects/).
On that ground, the assumption in this document is that any product based on
Apertis is exempt from the notification requirement except for very uncommon
scenarios where custom cryptography is used by the product itself. This also
applies to downstreams rebuilding the Apertis sources, as long as they do
not introduce custom cryptographic algorithms and proprietary implementations.
# Sample export control compliance vendor process
The goal with export compliance in Apertis is to focus on the following use-cases:
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