AUCRYPTO: `Germany Frees Crypto' - do you believe it?

[Nicholas Bohm]

At 11:54 AM 6/26/1999 +0100, Pete Chown wrote:

[snip]

>One other worry that I have in this area is that Wassenaar seems to
>exempt PD software and software which is sold retail or by mail order. 
>GPL software could fall between the two stools.  Based on my (somewhat
>flawed) recollection, it would suffice if the software was offered for
>sale even if the export in question was not a sale.  Thus I wonder if
>there is a justification for people with crypto code on their web pages
>to offer to supply it on disk in exchange for a fee, as well as making
>it available for free download.  Any thoughts?

"Public domain" has a wider meaning in the Wassenaar context: reservation
of copyright does not prevent software from being in the public domain if
it has been published (as by being placed on a website).  So it adds
nothing (in the export control context) to offer it for sale as well.

Regards,

Nicholas Bohm

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