From: Al Billings <mimir@u.washington.edu>
Date: Mon, 22 Nov 93 10:42:43 PST
To: "kpj@sics.se>
Subject: Re: Secure Drive 1.0 is here!
In-Reply-To: <9311221837.AA23712@sics.se>
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On Mon, 22 Nov 1993, kpj@sics.se wrote:

> | It isn't very smart asking him in a public forum, especially one that is 
> | pretty known to be monitored by at least some government agents. No 
> | matter what his opinion is, he's going to have to say "No." It is ILLEGAL 
> | for him to export it and you just basically stood up and yelled "Fire!" 
> | to every Fed on the list.
> 
> Naturally.  I expect him to refuse.  My whole question is whether it is
> valid to use Copyleft on code which is not freely copyable over national
> boundaries.

It is not his fault that he can't give it to you. He's made it freely 
available. If national boundaries interfere and paranoid US laws don't 
let him, I don't think you can blame HIM for that.

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