US export compliance

L. Sassaman rabbi@quickie.net
Tue, 9 Jan 2001 19:12:45 -0800 (PST)


You are confusing patent laws with crypto export laws. Seek legal counsel
if you're going to be doing anything with this.

On Tue, 9 Jan 2001, A Guy Called Tyketto wrote:


> On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 07:02:33PM -0800, L. Sassaman wrote:
> > On Tue, 9 Jan 2001, Rich wrote:
> >
> > > It's not required since it is not a product of the US.
> >
> > The question is still valid, I believe, if he wants to export it from US
> > computers.
>
> If the question is still valid, I don't see why it would be a problem.
> There is nothing in GnuPG that would violate US exportation laws. IDEA isn't
> included in the source, and RSA's license expired. Even if it hadn't, RSA
> isn't even in the source, so there would still be nothing to violate export
> laws.
>
> BL.
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