pippin wrote: 
> if you speak about Germany you are just as much caught up in
> legislation, just different one.

Sure. But at least legislation that the Germans are more familiar with.

> No, because the law originally had a flaw that actually allowed the code
> to be exported in printed form (only program code in electronic form was
> controlled, back then).

To pick nits - the code, in any other form than printed in a book, was
controlled. So the T-shirt was controlled, and so was the picture of it
- unless published in a book. It was the first amendment special
protection of the printed form that allowed the export trick.

> Would be interesting to know how this is being handled with GPG today.

"PGP encryption no longer meets the definition of a non-exportable
weapon, and can be exported internationally except to seven specific
countries and a list of named groups and individuals"


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