Re: Export Regulations

Enzo Michelangeli (em@who.net)
Thu, 23 Jul 1998 20:01:10 +0800

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From: Steve Salkin <salkin@mindspring.com>
Date: Thursday, July 23, 1998 12:44 PM

>I am still not clear about source code patches, you know, like the "context
>diffs" used by the GNU utilities. If I see some crypto code on an
>Australian site, notice a potential bug or speedup, and send a source patch
>is that subject to all these regulations too?

It depends: if the patch is expressed in a language that Justice Gwin finds
"all but intelligible", it can't be sent out; otherwise, you are protected
by the First Amendment. You gotta hope in a perceptive judiciary.

Enzo
(presently trying to make sense of a few hundred pages of "Import and Export
(Strategic Commodities) Regulations of the Hong Kong S.A.R.)

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