On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 1:29 PM, Mark H Weaver <m...@netris.org> wrote: > [...] I led the development of the scannable PGP source code books that > allowed PGP to be legally exported from the US fo the first time, along > with the tools needed to convert the paper books back into electronic > form with modest effort.
This is the most interesting thing anyone's said in the discussion so far. Now you can teach me something. If I had modified GNU source and I'd compiled it to object code, and put it in that "non-electronic media" you developed, and sold it, without making the modified source available to people, would that be selling Copyleft software? I think so. Now tell me how it is _you_ know that what you did doesn't earn you and Richard Stallman a fetching orange jump-suit each, and an all-expenses-paid vacation at a Government holiday camp in the South East Florida Keys, with power-showers every two hours and where you get to listen to the same Eminem song (there is only one) 24 hours a day? http://www.pmddtc.state.gov/regulations_laws/documents/official_itar/ITAR_Part_121.pdf Category VIII - Auxiliary Military Equipment ================================ (b) Military Information Security Assurance Systems and equipment, cryptographic devices, software, and components specifically designed, developed, modified, adapted, or configured for military applications (including command, control and intelligence applications. Ian
