[14803] in Cypherpunks
Re: Why it is legal to export PGP under ITAR
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stanton McCandlish)
Mon Jun 6 13:08:02 1994
To: eff-mail-cypherpunks@eff.org
From: mech@eff.org (Stanton McCandlish)
Date: 6 Jun 1994 13:00:53 -0400
Nice try, but NEVER confuse a dictionary definition with a legal definition.
In article <199405280642.XAA05875@jobe.shell.portal.com>,
<nobody@shell.portal.com> wrote:
>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. :)
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