[14809] in Cypherpunks
Re: Why it is legal to export PGP under ITAR
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Vance Cochrane (B.E.S.T.))
Mon Jun 6 13:27:53 1994
From: Vance Cochrane (B.E.S.T.) <i-vancec@microsoft.com>
To: eff-mail-cypherpunks@eff.org
Date: Mon, 6 Jun 94 10:19:01 TZ
| 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. :)
I am not a lawyer so don't scorch me...
Where does one obtain a legal definition if it is not in Blacks Law Dictionary?
Isn't the next source a "regular" dictionary?
...thats what they do on Perry Mason ;-)
vec
