"Michael H. Warfield" wrote:
>
> > The biggest issue in the new U.S. regulations is the "foreign
> > government" provision. I intend to file a comment recommending that
> > this provision be removed, since it is inherently unworkable. This
> > provision prohibits someone in the U.S. from "knowingly" export to a
> > foreign government end-user (*any* foreign government, not just T-7.)
> > This is of course idiotic, since it just takes someone *else* in that
> > country downloading the stuff and giving to their government -- or the
> > government getting an ISP account making them look like someone else.
> > Whomever does that would be breaking U.S. law, but that's meaningless
> > since they're outside U.S. jurisdiction.
>
> I saw that... Things like checking for .mil and .gov client sites.
> How BOGUS! Still, only applies to binaries and not to open source software
> SOURCES but that's little solace since Linus said that you planned to
> include some binaries on the site.
>
*Especially* bogus since .mil and .gov are TLDs used by the *U.S.*
government, quite specifically!!!! They also said to watch out for
.gouv, which isn't even a domain.
-hpa
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