Messages in this thread | | | From | (Linus Torvalds) | Subject | Re: 2.3.x wish list? | Date | 16 May 1999 04:37:37 GMT |
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In article <Pine.LNX.4.10.9905141723350.3553-100000@mtrausch.wcnet.org>, Michael B. Trausch <mtrausch@wcnet.org> wrote: > >Wrong. There is a court ruling that says that if source code to >encryption is available, then the encryption is ruled as speech and as >such, it is unconstitutional to limit the exportation of it.
Right.
And wrong.
Yes, there's a court ruling. The ruling is almost certain to be held up on appear for years by a government that thinks its own silly problems are more improtant than the privacy of the people it's supposed to protect. As happened to the lower court ruling in -97.
Until the case can be brought into the supreme court, that court ruling doesn't actually imply much anything - although I agree that it is a small victory for sanity, it is only a psychological victory right now. EVENTUALLY it may be considered binding. Right now it's not something you can really depend on.
Linus
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