I personally would prefer to step carefully here. The ruling of a circuit
court is a precedence not a law. In particular, it is not binding on another
circuit court. See if the government appeals and what the supreme court
says.
Shmuel Siegel
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> Subject: Source code == free speech?
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> Ref: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/04/04/1948229
>
> Apparently, today, the 6th circuit federal court has ruled that source
> code (crypto-source included, since that's the actual issue) is free
> speech and therefore protected by the First Ammendment.
>
> Two things I wonder about:
>
> 1) Is there anything above Federal or Supreme court, or have this
> lawsuit (that's what I understand is the legal term for this
> action) finally reached the end.
>
> 2) Where does that leave OpenSSL regarding getting US-originated
> source?
>
>
> If I understand correctly, if this ruling is hammered through (no pun
> intended), we can gladly say bye-bye to any regulation as long as we
> deal with source code and point at the First Ammendment instead...
>
> Comments?
>
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