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IP: Twp on New Encryption Regulations
From: Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>
Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2000 05:56:04 -0500
X-Sender: alan () mail cdtmail org Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2000 23:10:34 -0500 To: farber () cis upenn edu From: Alan Davidson <abd () cdt org> Subject: Re: IP: New Encryption Regulations Hi, Dave -- I'm getting a lot of feedback on my earlier note, and would be grateful if you might mention in any future posting on the subject that we do believe this is a big step forward for privacy. Our #1 privacy yardstick for assessing the crypto regs is whether consumers all over the world can get good crypto built into the products and systems they use everyday. Using that metric, the new regs will make it a lot easier to export strong crypto in consumer products and clearly advance the ball for privacy. They don't resolve every problem, but they are a big shift away from prior policies embracing bit length limits and key escrow. Thanks,
Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2000 20:06:48 -0700 To: farber () cis upenn edu, ip-sub-1 () majordomo pobox com From: Brett Glass <brett () lariat org> Subject: Re: IP: New Encryption Regulations Cc: Alan Davidson <abd () cdt org> At 07:41 PM 1/12/2000 , Alan Davidson wrote: * Source code that is "not subject to an express agreement for the payment of a licensing fee or royalty for commercial production or sale of any product developed with the source code" is freely exportable to all but the T-7 terrorist countries. Interesting. The way I read this, encryption source code licensed under a license such as the "MIT X license," "BSD license," or "Artistic License" can be exported, because no license fee or royalty is required when one developes commercial software based on such code. But code licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL) would not be exportable, because the license restricts the development of a commercial product based on the code. Hopefully, this will encourage open source authors to eschew the GPL and its restrictions in favor of the other, more free licenses, which do not prevent commercial reuse of open source. --Brett Glass
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