DTI and Export Control

[Nicholas Bohm]

At 06:42 PM 8/10/1999 +0100, Pete Chown wrote:
>I had an interesting discussion with an official at the DTI a few days
>ago.  He has given permission for me to pass on the substance of the
>discussion.  I hope that this is new information and I am not boring you
>with things that are already generally known.
>
>The most interesting point is that it looks as though the "public
>domain" exception in Wassenaar may be replaced with an exception based
>on the open source definition.  I see this as having good and bad
>points.  It is good because it clarifies the status of things like the
>GNU Privacy Guard.  At the same time it is bad because it may bring a
>number of other products within the scope of controls.

It might be helpful to post a copy of the opensource definition alongside
the existing public domain language:  then we could try to comment on the
differences.

Regards,

Nicholas Bohm

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