Technically, the U.S. is in a state of emergency. That gives the President the right to control the export of munitions. Cryptographic software is classified as munitions.
Note: it's not classified as the >>design<< for munitions it's classified as >>munitions<<. So, if CFS was exported from the U.S. in "live" form, without an appropriate license (human readable paper and ink doesn't count as live), that would have been an illegal act. However, Debian doesn't need to speculate on whether a "live" copy of CFS has left the country or not. We just need to make damn sure that *we* don't export any live copies. -- Raul Chris Leishman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ----- Message from Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ----- > On Wed, Apr 21, 1999 at 01:31:26AM +1000, Chris Leishman wrote: > <snip> > > Also - in my research of the program it came to my notice that this code > > should never have been released from the US (it was developed there). Now > > that is out of the US are there any legal issues for debian? > > Good question; best to check on debian-legal. I suspect that cat's out > of the bag now so we can do what we want with it. > > > Hamish > > ----- End message ----- > > > Can someone here give me a yes or no on this?? > > > Thanks, > > Chris > > -- > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > The box said "Windows 95, NT or better" .. so I installed Debian Linux > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Reply with subject 'request key' for PGP public key. KeyID 0xA9E087D5 > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
