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> > Then again, according to the Wassenaar agreement which the US also signed,
> > they agreed to some odd clause saying 'if the encryption is in the public
> > domain then export is legal'.
>
> hmmm...too bad the kernel isn't in the public domain, then? or can we get
> away with writing a plug-in module that's public domain?

Public domain is used in Wassenaar to mean no-cost. The problem is
that U.S. imposes unilateral rules beyond Wassenaar; in fact, the
U.S. brags publicly that the Wassenaar crypto regulations is just an
attempt to export the U.S. restrictions to other countries.

-hpa

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