[14349] in Cypherpunks
Why it is legal to export PGP under ITAR
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (nobody@shell.portal.com)
Sat May 28 02:44:46 1994
Date: Fri, 27 May 1994 23:42:45 -0700
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
From: nobody@shell.portal.com
The US ITAR law exempts many things from export restrictions, among them,
materials availiable in public libraries. It gives no special definition for a
library. My American Heritage Dictionary defines "library" as, among other
things, "An orginized collection of recorded data arranged for ease of use."
IOW, an ftp site. Which means that if a program is available from a public ftp
site, you're legally allowed to export it. :)
