From: Bill Stewart <stewarts@ix.netcom.com>
Date: Thu, 19 Jun 1997 11:17:52 +0800
To: Arunas Norvaisa <arunas@post1.com>
Subject: Re: [?????] PGP 5.0 Freeware is available from ???
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At 06:04 PM 6/18/97 +0300, Arunas Norvaisa wrote:
>>        ftp.hacktic.nl
>>        pub/replay/pub/incoming/pgp50trial.exe
> Will this be legal??? <= This is the question. BTW, when this
>'trial' version will cease to work?

"legal" means several things
1) If a US citizen in the US exported it, was that legal?  
	(probably not, though arguable in court.)
2) If a non-US-citizen located outside the US downloaded it
	from an account on a system in the US, does the US government
	have jurisdiction over them?  (probably not, so "legal" is moot.)
3) Does Nederlands law prevent you from exporting it to Turkey?
	(probably not, though if you were in Iraq or North Korea the
	answer might be different.)
4) Does Turkish law limit your importing or use of the software?
	(I don't know - you'll need to check that yourself.)
5) Does US law have any say over whether you can import it from
	the Nederlands to Turkey?  (Not really...)


#			Thanks;  Bill
# Bill Stewart, +1-415-442-2215 stewarts@ix.netcom.com
# You can get PGP outside the US at ftp.ox.ac.uk/pub/crypto/pgp
#   (If this is a mailing list or news, please Cc: me on replies.  Thanks.)