On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 05:07:13PM +0400, olive wrote: > >>US laws might prevent from doing this if you are a US citizen (or live > > > >It think it even goes further i.e. I don't think this is limited to US > >citizens. As I understand it, nobody (worldwide) is allowed to export > >anything (free software and proprietary software) containing > >encryption to the US embargo countries. > > This does not make sense; US laws cannot apply to non-US citizens not
That was also my initial reaction. > living in the US whatever these laws contain. The only way it can be What about companies that also have a site in the US? > achieved is to have a United Nation embargo. There might be countries > under UN-embargo (Irak was one, I do not have followed the recent > development). For such countries export is prohibited (but not limited > to encryption) worldwide but not for countries just under US embargo. > > Olive -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Those who do not understand Unix are condemned to reinvent it, poorly." -- Henry Spencer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
