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Re: Questions regarding export restrictions in Europe
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (M Taylor)
Tue Jul 20 18:48:01 1999
Date: Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:12:43 -0300 (ADT)
From: M Taylor <mctylr@privacy.nb.ca>
To: Bill Stewart <bill.stewart@pobox.com>
Cc: prodigy@post7.tele.dk, cryptography@c2.net
In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19990720110632.00a0f420@idiom.com>
On Tue, 20 Jul 1999, Bill Stewart wrote:
> At 12:08 PM 7/16/99 +0200, prodigy@post7.tele.dk wrote:
> >I was wondering if its illegal for me to offer export restricted
> >software for download on my website. The software in questions,
> >is created and distributed inside USA, its illegal to export it
> >out of USA. Now, since this already happened, is it illegal for
> >me to continue offering downloads from my server located in Denmark?
>
> Danish law probably doesn't care what the US thinks about it.
> And US law doesn't apply to non-US-citizens in Denmark.
>
> The US government has been trying to convince everybody else
It may matter though if you are in Canada, Canadian export laws explicitly
mentions re-export of US-origin goods. (A Guide to Canada's Export
Controls - D.2 Export of United States Origin Goods, and Item 5400 of
Group 5 of the Export Control List)
-M Taylor
