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From: atkinson@itd.nrl.navy.mil (Randall Atkinson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: 4.4BSD-alpha CDROM
Keywords: cdrom
Message-ID: <3008@ra.nrl.navy.mil>
Date: 11 Jul 92 17:55:17 GMT
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In article <1760@titccy.cc.titech.ac.jp> mohta@necom830.cc.titech.ac.jp (Masataka Ohta) writes:

>In which country is your company located?
>
>If you are in US, you can't export anything which includes DES.
>
>						Masataka Ohta

  Not to depress anyone, but all of the NATO countries, Australia, New
Zealand, and Japan reportedly also require export licenses for DES
hardware or software.  DES is exportable from all of the above and
from the US, but in all cases a license from the appropriate
government IS required.  The difficulty in obtaining such a license
and the broadness of the license varies somewhat from country to
country.  Consult legal counsel in your jurisdiction for details.

  Mr. Ohta probably should talk to appropriate Japanese legal counsel
before shipping the DES outside Japan lest he encounter legal problems...

DISCLAIMER:  The author speaks only for himself.