[mpich-discuss] ECCN Number for MPICH 1 and MPICH 2

[Pavan Balaji]

FYI, our legal folks confirmed this:

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If the software is open source, publically available, then it is not 
export controlled, and therefore there is no ECCN (Export Control 
Classification Number).
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  -- Pavan

On 07/07/2010 02:25 PM, Pavan Balaji wrote:
> We are trying to get an answer from our legal folks to confirm this, but 
> the answer is going to be basically what Dave mentioned. MPICH2 is an 
> open-source free software and does not have any export control restrictions.
> 
>   -- Pavan
> 
> On 07/07/2010 11:23 AM, Dave Goodell wrote:
>> I don't believe that we have such a number.  You'll probably have to talk to your company's lawyers to sort out an ECCN.
>>
>> I imagine that whatever ECCN (if any) applies to MPICH should apply to MPICH2 as well.  Fundamentally they don't do especially different things, they just do them in different ways.
>>
>> -Dave
>>
>> On Jul 7, 2010, at 9:54 AM CDT, Topp, Dave (GE Aviation, US) wrote:
>>
>>> My company's internal policies require that we know the Export Control
>>> Classification Number (ECCN) for all software that we use.  Today, we
>>> are running an old version of MPICH1 on the Windows platform (1.2.6).
>>> Please send me the ECCN for both MPICH 1 and MPICH 2 (it's probably time
>>> for an upgrade...).
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Dave
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Pavan Balaji
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