Wassenaar followup

Thomas Roessler roessler at guug.de
Fri Dec 11 14:15:19 CET 1998


On Fri, Dec 11, 1998 at 11:53:37AM +0100, Fabio Coatti wrote:
> Today I've seen some new documents in Wassenaar site, and there is a list
> of dual-use items.
> Is interesting to note that all the question is related to definition of
> "public domain" (see the General Software Note). If gnupg is "public
> domain" then there will be no restrictions, but GPL soft can be considered 
> "public domain"?

"Public Domain" has a special meaning in the context of the wassenaar
agreement.  See the definition of terms under
http://www.fitug.de/news/wa/Def.html. 

tlr




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