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Re: Possible legal problems...

On Sun, Feb 22, 2004 at 06:38:11PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 22, 2004 at 05:53:47PM -0500, Nicholas Wourms wrote:
> >By his standard, RedHat has been breaking the law for years now, which 
> >leads me to conclude that either:
> >A)The authorities don't care.
> >B)Red Hat doesn't care.
> >or
> >C)RedHat already has filed the necessary paperwork to allow it to 
> >distribute binaries with strong encryption.
> 
> Hmm.  I guess I haven't been as diligent as I should have been.  I've
> pulled gnupg from the distribution.


Should there be some generic announcement about this issue?

The pertinent USA government website seems to be 

<http://www.bxa.doc.gov/encryption/>
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