[Board] Fwd: Open source but EAR99

[Michelle Thompson]

Potential project! We've been asked to help.

We could touch base with Thomsen and Burke LLP about this. We do not
have any  budget for legal, and have yet to hear back from our grant
request to YASME about backfilling the loan to ORI for the second half
of the ITAR/EAR work, but stuff like this seems like the sort of thing
we want to do.

Thoughts?

-Michelle Thompson




---------- Forwarded message ---------
From: Mike Parker <airarray at gmail.com>
Date: Wed, Dec 7, 2022 at 11:36 AM
Subject: Open source but EAR99
To: Michelle Thompson <mountain.michelle at gmail.com>


Hi Michelle,
Xmidas is an open source software signal processing package that has
been jointly developed by a number of companies and with substantial
USG sponsorship.  I was heavily involved in the early years.  I was
the CEO of Rincon Research whose IR&D funds developed Xmidas in the
80s.  I and even wrote the license plagiarized from the Free Software
Foundation’s license.  Software capabilities are somewhat like Matlab,
but definitely not a clone.

The Xmidas baseline was not classified, but you had to know who to ask
to get on the distribution list.

A couple of years ago I got permission from government sponsors to
release a version.  Rincon Research Corp where it originated signed
off on this release as EAR99, and I now have a bunch of thumb drives
labeled Xmidas 2020 Export Controlled.

I’ve been handing them out to acquaintances and to the CatSat team.  I
would be willing to distribute them widely, but am hung up on the
logistics.  For example, if I required anyone asking for a copy to
certify that they did not fall into a prohibited category, how would I
know that they were telling the truth?

Any suggestions?

Is ORI interested in getting involved with the logistics of
distribution, software maintenance etc.?

Mike Parker kt7d
Tucson, Az
520 444-9704 cell