From d99b617122f72f998345cef92cebf013d6edacca Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Grant Ingersoll Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2009 19:14:01 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] SOLR-862: Add notice about export control to README git-svn-id: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/lucene/solr/trunk@798260 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68 --- README.txt | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 28 insertions(+) diff --git a/README.txt b/README.txt index 12cceef0fbe..4689d1b68fb 100644 --- a/README.txt +++ b/README.txt @@ -88,3 +88,31 @@ Instructions for Building Apache Solr from Source NOTE: To see Solr in action, you may want to use the "ant example" command to build and package Solr into the example/webapps directory. See also example/README.txt. + + +Export control +------------------------------------------------- +This distribution includes cryptographic software. The country in +which you currently reside may have restrictions on the import, +possession, use, and/or re-export to another country, of +encryption software. BEFORE using any encryption software, please +check your country's laws, regulations and policies concerning the +import, possession, or use, and re-export of encryption software, to +see if this is permitted. See for more +information. + +The U.S. Government Department of Commerce, Bureau of Industry and +Security (BIS), has classified this software as Export Commodity +Control Number (ECCN) 5D002.C.1, which includes information security +software using or performing cryptographic functions with asymmetric +algorithms. The form and manner of this Apache Software Foundation +distribution makes it eligible for export under the License Exception +ENC Technology Software Unrestricted (TSU) exception (see the BIS +Export Administration Regulations, Section 740.13) for both object +code and source code. + +The following provides more details on the included cryptographic +software: + Apache Solr uses the Apache Tika which uses the Bouncy Castle generic encryption libraries for + extracting text content and metadata from encrypted PDF files. + See http://www.bouncycastle.org/ for more details on Bouncy Castle. \ No newline at end of file