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From: andersa@kuling.UUCP (Anders Andersson)
Newsgroups: net.followup
Subject: Re: West Berlin - Ronnie's or Mike's ?
Message-ID: <941@kuling.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 12-May-86 20:41:36 EDT
Article-I.D.: kuling.941
Posted: Mon May 12 20:41:36 1986
Date-Received: Thu, 15-May-86 05:49:18 EDT
References: <2500007@coma.UUCP>
Reply-To: andersa@kuling.UUCP (Anders Andersson)
Organization: Uppsala University, Sweden
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In article <2500007@coma.UUCP> ao@coma.UUCP writes:
>In December 1985 we received the following telex:
>> Your application for 4.2 bsd is now complete. However, we need to
>> inform you that because of recent new amendmendts to the u.s. export
>> administration act of 1979 our legal counsel of the university of
>> california will require an assurance from all bsd licensees
>> regarding re-export of our software. We hope to send you the

>Are there people on the net, who have similar expierences ?
>
>How can we convince UCB, state (?) or federal (?) authorities
>that we are 'their' Berlin, and do not belong to the 'empire of evil'.
>                                   ^^^

These restrictions are not applied to eastern Europe only, but to any
potential "transit" country - maybe that includes all of Europe, I don't
know. According to some rumor a few years ago, USA trusted Yugoslavia more
than Sweden. We had some trouble with a VAX travelling around the world,
finally being caught in the Swedish customs - it was said to be shipped to
the USSR, but the government decided it was "warfare material" and thus
managed to confiscate it and send it back to the manufacturer. Today we
too have some law regarding this kind of export, but I don't know exactly
what it says. Anyway, I hope we are considered reasonably "clear" by now.
-- 
Anders Andersson, Dept. of Computer Systems, Uppsala University, Sweden
Phone: +46 18 183170
UUCP: andersa@kuling.UUCP (...!{seismo,mcvax}!enea!kuling!andersa)