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From: tenney@well.UUCP (Glenn S. Tenney)
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Subject: Re: There are basically no export controls on public domain information.
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Date: Tue, 7-Oct-86 00:42:41 EDT
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In article  gnu@hoptoad.uucp (John Gilmore) writes:
>I got into a hassle last month for posting a DES program to mod.sources
>because someone claimed that I was breaking the export control law.
>
>I spent the afternoon down at the Federal Building and discovered that
>export policy is in better shape than I thought.  Basically, you can
>export any technical data to any destination if it "has been made
>generally available to the public in any form".  This export is under
>a "general license" which is available to everyone without any paperwork.

I hope that this is a recent change.  A friend of mine publishes a public
domain FORTH system that has been sold in stores and on BBSs for years.
He was told by the Feds (I don't remember which) that he could not export
the system.  He replied that anyone can walk into xyz store and buy it, but
the answer was still no.  It was my impression that SOME software is
somehow considered a no-no for export.

-- Glenn Tenney 
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