[41403] in Cypherpunks
Who is liable under ITAR (was Re: Anguilla Cypherpunks Meeting)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter D. Junger)
Fri Oct 13 12:30:18 1995
Errors-To: cpadmin@toad.com
To: Cypherpunks <cypherpunks@toad.com>,
Michael Froomkin <froomkin@law.miami.edu>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 13 Oct 1995 10:30:10 EDT."
<Pine.SUN.3.91.951013102909.29537B-100000@viper.law.miami.edu>
Date: Fri, 13 Oct 1995 11:58:45 -0400
From: "Peter D. Junger" <junger@pdj2-ra.F-REMOTE.CWRU.Edu>
Michael Froomkin writes:
: On Thu, 12 Oct 1995, Vincent Cate wrote:
: [..]
:
: > If while you are outside the USA you want to write some software that uses
: > encryption and sell it worldwide, let me know. I could put you up while
: > you wrote it and my company could sell it for share of the selling price.
: > Let me know what you are thinking of and how long you think it would take.
:
: Of course if you are a US person (citizen or green card holder) this is
: just as much a violation of the ITAR than if you did it from inside the US...
And of course if you are not a US person this is just as much a
violation of the ITAR as if you were a US person. The ITAR does not
exempt foreign persons from its requirements, though it does make them
ineligible to get a license permitting them to disclose their software
to other foreigners (or even to themselves).
--
Peter D. Junger--Case Western Reserve University Law School--Cleveland, OH
Internet: junger@pdj2-ra.f-remote.cwru.edu junger@samsara.law.cwru.edu
