[Board] passive radar / ITAR/ open source

[Michelle Thompson]

We support you and are here however we can help, you have a lot of
people pulling for you and the project, and you've got the best
possible team at T&B.

-Michelle Thompson




On Mon, Nov 14, 2022 at 1:27 AM The Kraken <thekraken at krakenrf.com> wrote:
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> Hi Michelle,
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> I'm glad that we coincidentally had already retained T&B. We are currently working with Maher Shomali, as we came into the firm through their internal ITAR consultant, Jason Knowles. I also already emailed info at eff.org.
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> It would be great if we could actually offer the thing we've been working on for over three years. But who knows...
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> Syed
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> On Sun, Nov 13, 2022 at 7:02 PM Michelle Thompson <mountain.michelle at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Greetings Syed,
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>> We’ll help however we can.
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>> EFF will undoubtedly be sympathetic, supportive, and helpful.
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>> We worked with Roszel Thomsen at Thomsen and Burke, and several of his staff. I highly recommend them for both expertise in this regulatory field and also having an understanding of and positive view of open source.
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>> They welcome direct contact, but if there’s any difficulties in getting in touch with them, then please let us know.
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>> -Michelle Thompson
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>> On Sun, Nov 13, 2022 at 15:41 The Kraken <thekraken at krakenrf.com> wrote:
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>>> Hi Michelle,
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>>> This is Syed. We were in touch regarding the amateur satellite project. I'm also involved with KrakenRF (co-owner). Carl, who is my partner on KrakenRF and runs rtl-sdr.com, mentioned your tweets related to our situation.
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>>> Are you able to provide any additional information surrounding open source code and ITAR? I did read your ITAR/EAR notice, but I don't think it applies to us because we sell hardware and provide instructions on how to use the passive radar software (which is open source).
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>>> Do you think this might be of interest to EFF? I assume no, as I don't think there would be any litigation involved with any of this.
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>>> Who did you work with at Thomsen & Burke?
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>>> Syed
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>>>
>> --
>> -Michelle Thompson
>>
>> "Potestatem obscuri lateris nescis."
>>