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Re: WARNING: Crypto software to be included into main Debian distribution



On Sat, Feb 23, 2002 at 11:32:59PM -0600, Steve Langasek wrote:
> US export law concerns (as it should) the transport of items from within 
> the borders of the United States to areas outside those borders.  If 
> you're engaged in export activities from another country to the T7, on 
> what grounds would you expect to be prosecuted in the United States?  
> And perhaps a more important question is, why do you believe moving 
> crypto into main /increases/ this risk, if you already operate a non-US 
> mirror that's open to the T7?

Because currently none of the programs in non-us have their origins in
the US. So i do not export anything from the us to the T7 countries. And
yes - My mirror is open to anyone - And i would like it to stay like
this.

> Export from the US to Europe, and export from Europe to the T7, are two 
> separate acts.  Unless there's something linking the two acts together 

Not when reexporting the stuff. You are not allowed to take a tank to 
Germany and then go on traveling to Irak. 

> -- such as intent on the part of the person exporting from the US -- I 
> don't see any reason for this to be considered equivalent to an export 
> from the US to the T7.  If there was such a reason, you would already be 
> at risk today, because there are non-US packages maintained by US 
> developers.  Even so, the much greater danger would be to the Americans 

Thats new to me that there are non-us packages maintained by US
citizens. If thats the case why is there no need to have the export
regulation notice on the non-us mirrors today ?

> involved, both for being easier for the Feds to get ahold of, and for 
> playing a larger role in the actual export...

Flo
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