Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 3 Aug 2000 14:41:44 -0400 (EDT) | From | Henry Spencer <> | Subject | Re: FW: Crypto |
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Gerhard Mack <gmack@innerfire.net> writes: > We are exempt from the crypto export restrictions but have no restrictions > of our own.
Not true! Have you *read* Canada's export regulations? Crypto software *is* covered, and indeed the rules are generally similar to the US ones... except that there is a blanket exemption for "public domain" software, plus a footnote saying that copyright protection does not negate this.
Canada has been a popular base for crypto stuff partly because of the public-domain exemption, and partly because the Canadian government has generally been more sensible about *applying* the export rules for non-PD crypto. But most certainly there are restrictions.
Henry Spencer henry@spsystems.net
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