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Re: Why isn't queue/new world-readable?



Op do, 13-01-2005 te 22:05 +0100, schreef Florian Weimer:
> * John Hasler:
> 
> > Henrique de Moraes Holschuh writes:
> >> That depends on what is defined by "export", and what kind of processing
> >> the non-US ftpmasters do on the package.
> >
> > "Export" means crossing the US border in the outward direction. 
> 
> A common misconception.
> 
> |                     (c)  Scope of "exports"
> | 
> | Certain actions that you might not regard as an
> | "export" in other contexts do constitute an export
> | subject to the EAR.  The release of technology to
> | a foreign national in the United States through
> | such means as demonstration or oral briefing is
> | deemed an export.  Other examples of exports
> | under the EAR include the return of foreign 
> | equipment to its country of origin after repair in
> | the United States, shipments from a U.S. foreign
> | trade zone, and the electronic transmission of
> | non-public data that will be received abroad.

Uhm. Debian has had two lawyers look at the respective laws and suggest
us a procedure, which we follow; and it included setting the permission
bits as they currently are. We've done that for a few years now, and
nothing bad has happened. Why should we suddenly change it?

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