[CrackMonkey] Another global networked filesystem

[Rick Moen]

begin  Seth David Schoen quotation:

> Two other reasons:
> 
> - Most people with computers still don't have access to a compiler.
> - Most proprietary software authors still don't want to disclose their
>   source code.

The January regulations were semi-clued in an interesting manner.
Quoting the revision to Export Administration Regulations published in
the January 14, 2000 _Federal Register_ (Vol. 65, No. 10, page 2492):

  Also in section 740.13, to, in part, take into account the "open
  source" approach to software development, unrestricted encryption
  source code not subject to an express agreement for the payment of
  a licensing fee or royalty for commercial production or sale of any
  product developed using the source code can, without preview, be
  released from "EI" [encryption items] controls and exported and 
  re-exported under License Exception TSU.  Intellectual property
  protection (e.g., copyright, patent, or trademark) would not, by
  itself, be construed as an express agreement for the payment of
  a licensing fee or royalty for commercial production or sale of any
  product developed using the source code.  To qualify, exporters 
  must notify BXA [Bureau of Export Administration] of the Internet
  location (e.g., URL or Internet address) or provide a copy of the
  source code by the time of export.  These notifications are only
  required for the initial export; there are no notification 
  requirements for end-users subsequently using the source code.
  Notification can be made by e-mail to crypt at bxa.doc.gov .  [...]

This is at http://www.bxa.doc.gov/Encryption/regs.htm .

Cryptographer Matt Blaze has set up a remailer alias at
"exports at crypto.com".  Anyone wanting to send the BXA notice under
"15 CFR Part 734, as revised on January 14, 2000" is invited to use
that alias, which auto-appends your text to a public archive of such
posts at http://www.crypto.com/exports/, in addition to sending them
to the BXA.

Just for fun, I have my own alias, "nsa at linuxmafia.com", which remails
to Blaze's alias.  Pro bono publico.

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