Update on USG, Software, and the First Amendment

2014-10-27 Thread Robert J. Hansen
Just received word back from a friend of mine who's a law professor focusing in electronic civil liberties, and is a former Commissioner of the FCC to boot. He's skeptical that ITAR/EAR enforcement will affect U.S. hackers participating in libre software development. More than that I

Re: Update on USG, Software, and the First Amendment

2014-10-27 Thread charlie derr
On 10/27/2014 02:20 PM, Robert J. Hansen wrote: If there's interest, I'll try and talk him into writing something layman-friendly about ITAR/EAR, cryptography, and the First Amendment. Robert, Since you seem to be requesting it explicitly, I'll share that I'm interested personally.

Re: Update on USG, Software, and the First Amendment

2014-10-27 Thread Robert J. Hansen
Since you seem to be requesting it explicitly, I'll share that I'm interested personally. I just don't want to ask my friend to put together something on the subject and then discover there's no interest in it -- it seems disrespectful to Professor Johnson. :)

Re: Update on USG, Software, and the First Amendment

2014-10-27 Thread Terry Munson
He rather likes writing short essays on law. If there's interest, I'll try and talk him into writing something layman-friendly about ITAR/EAR I would be interested. Thanks, Terry From: Robert J. Hansen r...@sixdemonbag.org To: gnupg-users@gnupg.org gnupg-users@gnupg.org Sent: Monday,

Re: Update on USG, Software, and the First Amendment

2014-10-27 Thread Aaron Toponce
On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 03:51:04PM -0400, Robert J. Hansen wrote: I just don't want to ask my friend to put together something on the subject and then discover there's no interest in it -- it seems disrespectful to Professor Johnson. :) I think there will be great interest on the list for it.

Re: Update on USG, Software, and the First Amendment

2014-10-27 Thread Philip Jackson
On 27/10/14 20:51, Robert J. Hansen wrote: Since you seem to be requesting it explicitly, I'll share that I'm interested personally. I just don't want to ask my friend to put together something on the subject and then discover there's no interest in it -- it seems disrespectful to Professor