Re: legality of mailing Debian CDs from US to overseas?
On Mon, 5 Oct 1998, John B. Fink wrote:
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: Now -- my question is, can I get into any trouble by "exporting" CD-R of
: Debian Linux? I'm just sending burns of the "binary-i386.raw" images that
: I get via rsync. My primary worry (all of a sudden -- I guess I should've
: thought of this beforehand but I was *pretty* sure it was okay) is strong
: crypto and the (imho, half-asswd) U.S. munitions export laws concerning
: crypto over 40bit.
All "strong" crypto is in the non-US section, which is not present on
the binary-i386.raw image (last time I looked).
You would almost certainly be breaking the "law" if you exported a CD
which contained non-US.
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