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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/>