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- From: karn@servo.qualcomm.com (Phil Karn)
- Newsgroups: sci.crypt
- Subject: Re: PGP - Legal?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan4.041930.1238@qualcomm.com>
- Date: 4 Jan 93 04:19:30 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan4.030425.7578@netcom.com> strnlght@netcom.com (David Sternlight) writes:
- >We were talking about what's possible. Phil should read the munitions
- >act some day.
-
- I have, at length. (Well, actually the ITARs, which are authorized by
- the Munitions Act). I have also consulted an attorney who specializes
- in export control issues. The rules are, at best, deeply ambiguous
- when it comes to freely available public domain software. However,
- chances are also very good that any attempt to apply them to such a
- case would be tossed out of court. (Why do you think that no such case
- has ever been brought?)
-
- The ITAR writers clearly never envisioned that software would be
- freely given away. The assumption was that software, especially source
- code, would be proprietary. Like the detailed plans to, say, the
- avionics of an F-15, which are not available at my local Comp USA
- store or by anonymous FTP over the net. But crypto software *is*
- freely available from these places, and has appeared in quite a few
- publications (a partial list of which I posted here recently).
-
- Perhaps David Sternlight should read the First Amendment to the
- Constitution of the United States some day.
-
- >Phil seems to think that calling attention to the facts makes one
- >a right-wing Republican. He is way off base.
-
- You're right. The political spectrum goes much further than
- "right-wing Republican"...
-
- Phil
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