[amsat-bb] Open Source Satellite Work Determined to be Free of ITAR

[Rich Gopstein]

Michelle,

It would be particularly helpful to ask the lawyers to clarify whether this
finding can be directly applied to other open source amateur radio
satellite projects.  Posting their answer would help us determine whether
your result is applicable to our projects.

Rich, KD2CQ


On Wed, Aug 19, 2020 at 12:34 AM Michelle Thompson <
mountain.michelle at gmail.com> wrote:

> Understand, and will do as soon as it can be scheduled.
>
> Thanks so much for all the help.
>
> -Michelle W5NYV
>
> On Tue, Aug 18, 2020, 21:17 Bruce Perens <bruce at perens.com> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Aug 18, 2020 at 9:08 PM Michelle Thompson <
>> mountain.michelle at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I don’t want to dump the application on the internet without a clear ok
>>> from the firm. I’ll ask (again).
>>>
>>
>> It's important to ask the lawyers the right question. Tell them we want
>> to be able to assure people that this is about the Open Source policy, not
>> simply that DoD finds nothing to worry about in our technical description
>> of the satellite. Let them figure out the best way to do that.
>>
>> It would be a shame for AMSAT to choose not to use this strategy, but
>> mostly for AMSAT. ORI will be using it, and I think it will catch on in
>> colleges.
>>
>>     Thanks
>>
>>     Bruce
>>
>