Re: Export restrictions blurb

2006-03-19 Thread Frank Hecker
Duane wrote: This where the second part of the federal case comes in, as part of the case they appealed to a higher court and in turned had stopped. The reason the judge let the case be dropped (at that point in time) was only because they said they had no plans to actively prevent the export

Re: Export restrictions blurb

2006-03-19 Thread Duane
Frank Hecker wrote: As noted above, the US government permits anyone subject to its laws and regulations to put open source encryption code on public web sites or FTP sites, in the full knowledge that anyone in the world can download it, including people in Cuba, Iran, etc. This where the se

Re: Export restrictions blurb

2006-03-19 Thread Frank Hecker
Heikki Toivonen wrote: Several pages on mozilla (Google: site:mozilla.org or site:mozilla.com Libya) show the crypto export restrictions blurb ("countries and nationals of Libya yada yada"). These notices are actually not the same. Some list Taliban controlled areas of Afghanistan, some list par

Re: Export restrictions blurb

2006-03-17 Thread Duane
Duane wrote: Nelson B. Bolyard wrote: Duane wrote: Heikki Toivonen wrote: Several pages on mozilla (Google: site:mozilla.org or site:mozilla.com Libya) show the crypto export restrictions blurb ("countries and nationals of Libya yada yada"). These notices are actually not the same. Some list

Re: Export restrictions blurb

2006-03-17 Thread Duane
Nelson B. Bolyard wrote: Duane wrote: Heikki Toivonen wrote: Several pages on mozilla (Google: site:mozilla.org or site:mozilla.com Libya) show the crypto export restrictions blurb ("countries and nationals of Libya yada yada"). These notices are actually not the same. Some list Taliban contr

Re: Export restrictions blurb

2006-03-17 Thread Nelson B. Bolyard
Duane wrote: > Heikki Toivonen wrote: > >> Several pages on mozilla (Google: site:mozilla.org or site:mozilla.com >> Libya) show the crypto export restrictions blurb ("countries and >> nationals of Libya yada yada"). >> >> These notices are actually not the same. Some list Taliban controlled >> ar

Re: Export restrictions blurb

2006-03-17 Thread Duane
Heikki Toivonen wrote: Several pages on mozilla (Google: site:mozilla.org or site:mozilla.com Libya) show the crypto export restrictions blurb ("countries and nationals of Libya yada yada"). These notices are actually not the same. Some list Taliban controlled areas of Afghanistan, some list par

Re: Export restrictions blurb

2006-03-17 Thread Heikki Toivonen
Bob Lord wrote: > Heikki Toivonen wrote: > Which ones have you run across? We should probably collect all the > relevant URLs. This Google query: (site:mozilla.org OR site:mozilla.com) Libya gives 78 pages. Some of those are just cvs versions of the same file, some bogus hits, some wiki change

Re: Export restrictions blurb

2006-03-17 Thread Nelson B. Bolyard
Bob Lord wrote: > Heikki Toivonen wrote: >> Also I wonder: is it ok for these notices to be somewhat hidden, in the >> sense that most people will never see them when they go download NSS or >> Mozilla because the notices are either on some developer page or a file >> in ftp root directory or some

Re: Export restrictions blurb

2006-03-17 Thread Bob Lord
Heikki Toivonen wrote: Several pages on mozilla (Google: site:mozilla.org or site:mozilla.com Libya) show the crypto export restrictions blurb ("countries and nationals of Libya yada yada"). Which ones have you run across? We should probably collect all the relevant URLs. These notices ar