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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!spool.mu.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!ai-lab!life.ai.mit.edu!mycroft From: mycroft@trinity.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Charles Hannum) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: FreeBSD outside of US?? Date: 24 Aug 1993 22:52:56 GMT Organization: MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab Lines: 15 Message-ID: <MYCROFT.93Aug24185257@trinity.gnu.ai.mit.edu> References: <WS.93Aug22212223@kurt.tools.de> <258qov$i3e@landin.ecs.soton.ac.uk> <1993Aug23.083546.5676@gmd.de> <25aru3$cdv@umd5.umd.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: trinity.gnu.ai.mit.edu In-reply-to: mark@roissy.umd.edu's message of 23 Aug 1993 16:40:35 GMT I don't have the original text handy, but what you failed to quote was the backdoor which allows any such algorithm which is published in a common book, journal, etc., to be imported and exported freely. Presumably this is because even the US Gov't isn't stupid enough to think they can control distribution of common books. Thus, the simple solution is to publish your code in Byte or DDJ or some other such magazine. One might even be tempted to set up a regular journal for which this is the only purpose. It is unclear whether, for example, a subscription to a periodic CD-ROM distribution which is available to anyone would constitute `publishing'.