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The T7 countries are all under Boycott. You'd get arrested exporting ANYTHING to them. Is a Cigar an armament? Can you get real honest-to-god Havana Cigars? On Fri, 1 Mar 2002, Walter Landry wrote: >Anthony Towns <[email protected]> wrote: >> And frankly, no, you _can't_ export code and say "Do whatever you want >> with it" in that sense: you can't export gcc to a T7 country and tell >> them, "go ahead, use it to build a nuclear arsenal". > >Excuse me? Why can't I do that? There are no export restrictions on >software like gcc. There is for hydrodynamic simulation codes (oddly >enough, you can't give them to North Korea, but Iraq seems fine) and >crypto, but not for compilers. I am free to give them the code and >tell them (to quote Theo De Raadt) to use it "for any purpose they >wish to use it, including modification, use, peeing on, or even >integration into baby mulching machines or atomic bombs to be dropped >on Australia." > <snip> - -- Armageddon means never having to say you're sorry. Who is John Galt? [EMAIL PROTECTED], that's who! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD4DBQE8gaJo+ZSKG3nWr3ARAjXpAJjw9YfCcAw8KWJTUGQEDpJ3yQdXAJwNBDhU Pnu8a/3/QfCEowiWk7yH2Q== =u25j -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
