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Re: ITP seahorse



In debian.legal, you wrote:

>I'm 99% sure that if the program doesn't contain encryption software
>that it is okay.  The Export Control Laws don't say anything about
>"hooks" or the like.  The demarcation line is whether or not it
>contains encryption code.  No encryption code, no problem -- hooks or
>not.

ISTR the mozilla people didn't want to write crypto hooks because they 
thought it might fall foul of US export law - but that was before they got 
relaxed at the beginning of this year, so I don't know if it's still 
relevant.


David



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