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From: Wes Hardaker <wes@hardakers.net>
Subject: Re: Crypto problems again
Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2004 13:39:43 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <sdznbxgq8w.fsf@wes.hardakers.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3y8rh9q7e.fsf@defun.localdomain> (Jesper Harder's message of "Thu, 05 Feb 2004 22:22:29 +0100")

>>>>> On Thu, 05 Feb 2004 22:22:29 +0100, Jesper Harder <harder@ifa.au.dk> said:

>> They are.  He's probably just complaining they didn't go far enough.
>> You have to register the code one time only but beyond that it's
>> free and clear.

Jesper> AFAIK, even if you do register it with some US spy agency, you're
Jesper> still not allowed to export to certain countries.

Jesper> Why should, say, Cubans not be allowed to use Emacs?  I can see why he
Jesper> doesn't want to do that.

No, If you publish it on a web page (for example) or an ftp site (for
another example) the current regulations do not prohibit you from
worrying about who accesses it (including Cubans, North Koreans,
...).  There are 7 countries that you can't *push* it to.  But they're
allowed to pull it from a public site.  Silly ain't it.


-- 
"In the bathtub of history the truth is harder to hold than the soap,
 and much more difficult to find."  -- Terry Pratchett



  reply	other threads:[~2004-02-05 21:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-02-02 18:02 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2004-02-02 18:54 ` Simon Josefsson
2004-02-02 23:07   ` Wes Hardaker
2004-02-03  9:12   ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2004-02-05 17:25     ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2004-02-05 17:45       ` Wes Hardaker
2004-02-05 20:09       ` Ted Zlatanov
2004-02-05 20:53       ` Simon Josefsson
2004-02-05 21:37         ` Wes Hardaker
2004-02-06  0:53         ` Jesper Harder
2004-02-05 21:29       ` Josh Huber
2004-02-05 21:38         ` Wes Hardaker
2004-02-05 22:36       ` Simon Josefsson
2004-02-05 23:09         ` Wes Hardaker
2004-02-02 19:49 ` crypto in netrc.el and gnus-encrypt.el (was: Crypto problems again) Ted Zlatanov
2004-02-02 23:05 ` Crypto problems again Wes Hardaker
2004-02-05 21:22   ` Jesper Harder
2004-02-05 21:39     ` Wes Hardaker [this message]
2004-02-05 22:18       ` Jesper Harder
2004-02-05 23:11         ` Wes Hardaker
2004-02-06  0:24           ` Jesper Harder
2004-02-06  1:47 ` Jesper Harder
2004-02-06 15:42   ` Wes Hardaker
2004-02-06 23:58     ` Jesper Harder
2004-02-09 21:03       ` Ted Zlatanov
2004-02-13 10:17         ` Kai Grossjohann

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