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From: dik@mcvax.uucp (Dik T. Winter)
Newsgroups: sci.crypt,net.sources.d
Subject: Re: Re: There are basically no export controls on public domain information.
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Date: Sat, 8-Nov-86 15:30:24 EST
Article-I.D.: zuring.316
Posted: Sat Nov  8 15:30:24 1986
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In article  mdapoz@watrose.UUCP (Mark Dapoz) writes:
>This brings up a question I've been wondering about ever since this discussion
>started up.  Everyone keeps talking about export controls on software
>distributed over the net.  If someone over there (the US) decides that
>you shouldn't post a program to net.sources, does that mean I have to
>live by that decision here in Canada?  As far as I know of (and I may be
>wrong), but there is no control over distrbution of a DES encryption program
>here in Canada.  So what is there from stopping me from posting the program
>so that my fellow *Canadian* programers can use my work.  You have to remember
>that this net also covers Canada, which is another county with many 
>different laws than the USA.  Just because my posting would spill over into
>the US shouldn't stop me from posting the program.
>
I think the distribution 'not.usa' should be invented.
-- 
dik t. winter, cwi, amsterdam, nederland
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