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Re: ITP: libmpeg3 -- an mpeg audio and video decoding library



On Mon, Apr 02, 2001 at 09:56:06PM +0100, Malcolm Parsons wrote:
> 
> non-US is for software that can not be *exported* from the US, it is legal 
> to use it *everywhere*.

that is not true, some countries ban import and use of cryptography,
france used to and iirc china still does.  

> It is illegal to *import* a circumvention device, like CSS, into the US.
> AFAIK it is legal to use CSS everywhere *except the US*.

just as its legal to use cryptography most places, with a few
exceptions.  

> non-US is not an appropriate place for CSS distribution. Something else would
> be needed for distribution of CSS code.

why not?  its appropriate for cryptography which is forbidden in a few
fascist parts of the world, i don't really see much difference with a
peice of software that just happens to only be forbidden in a
different country then usual.  

-- 
Ethan Benson
http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/

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