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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. :)
On Fri, 27 May 1994 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. :) So if I had the local public library put the software version of 2.6 availabel for checkout (a reasonable simple task, as they have other software available), then would that erase any doubt as to what a library is? ____ Robert A. Hayden <=> hayden@krypton.mankato.msus.edu \ /__ -=-=-=-=- <=> -=-=-=-=- \/ / Finger for Geek Code Info <=> I do not necessarily speak for the \/ Finger for PGP Public Key <=> City of Mankato or Blue Earth County -=-=-=-=-=-=-=- (GEEK CODE 1.0.1) GAT d- -p+(---) c++(++++) l++ u++ e+/* m++(*)@ s-/++ n-(---) h+(*) f+ g+ w++ t++ r++ y+(*)
nobody said: > The US ITAR law exempts many things from export restrictions, among them, > materials availiable in public libraries. The gotcha is that you can't necessarily *put* it in a library. It's like the publication catch-22. Eli ebrandt@hmc.edu
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. :) -- Stanton McCandlish * mech@eff.org * Electronic Frontier Found. OnlineActivist F O R M O R E I N F O, E - M A I L T O: I N F O @ E F F . O R G O P E N P L A T F O R M O N L I N E R I G H T S V I R T U A L C U L T U R E C R Y P T O