On Sun, Aug 19, 2001 at 07:16:03AM -0700, David Roundy wrote: > On Sun, Aug 19, 2001 at 06:49:29PM +1000, Joel Mayes wrote: > > The US has some draconion exporting laws. i.e. It's illegal to export > > encryption software from the US even if that software was originated > > outside the US. > > More accurately, US used to have these draconian export laws. The laws > have changed,
No, the administration's declared interpretation of those laws has changed. AFAIK all the BXA notification stuff was just regulatory changes, not changes in the law. > but debian still has its crypto stuff in non-US. There has been a lot of discussion recently among a team of developers and lawyers about whether that can and should be changed. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
