Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Path: utzoo!lsuc!jim
From: jim@lsuc.on.ca (Jim Mercer)
Subject: Re: Unix software and USSR
Message-ID: <1990Sep27.163917.11297@lsuc.on.ca>
Keywords: USSR BSD Unix
Organization: Law Society of Upper Canada, Toronto
References: <807@sun13.scri.fsu.edu>
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 90 16:39:17 GMT

In article <807@sun13.scri.fsu.edu> sandee@sun16.scri.fsu.edu (Daan Sandee) writes:
>You are a little confused. U.S. Dept of Commerce regulations forbid the
>export of the DES encryption algorithm (source, binary, or on paper) outside
>of the U.S. or Canada. There is no reason to restrict Unix source code.
                ^^^^^^
we just recieved our Sys V source license which basically says that there is
a US domestic release and an "international" release.

we, in Canada, are barred from DES as well.

with some minor paper work we could around it.

but, why bother? the source is available all over.

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