Re: wish list

[Scott Fallin <saf@kha0s.org>]

* Kendall Lister <kendall@charon.net.au>: 

> On Mon, 7 Jun 1999, Rik van Riel wrote:
> 
> > Not really. At least one of the distributions is hosted in the
> > Netherlands, besides, it's not forbidden to export strong crypto in
> > source form...
> 
> Actually, it is, from the US at least. What is not forbidden is the
> exporting of books containing source code in printed form, hence the PGP
> non-US scanning project.
> 

There was a recent appeals court ruling in the Bernstein case, which
has been interpreted by some as stating that source code qualifies as
protected speach under the First Amendment to the US Constitution.

Given that higher courts do not always listen to courts of appeal, we
will have to see where this leads.  It is, however, a step in the
Right Direction(tm).

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