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In article <103928@netnews.upenn.edu> chaim@linc.cis.upenn.edu (Chaim R. Dworkin) writes:
>I just ftp'ed pkz204c.exe from garbo.  What is garbo's policy concerning
>making this type of software available internationally?  

I hear that PKWARE is getting an examption, or an injuction, or
whatever to export excepting some totalitarian countries like Iraq. 

>Yes, I know garbo is in Finland and not subject to US laws but I'm just
>wondering if they have any policy of following US restriction on exports
>of encryptation or not.

I am not a lawyer, but, worse still, an accountant. :-)

What I say next does not intend the slightest of offence to anyone. 

While meaning well, North American users often pose in this respect
more xenophobic questions than they might realize, even when they
state like you do that the US law do not apply in Finland.  We get
material from all over the world to Garbo.  Taken to the extremes I
would have to know the legislation and aberrations of each and every
country that can somehow reach Garbo through the net.  That is
impossible.  So is it fair that I should somehow be privy to US
regulations in particular?  What makes them so special (a rhetorical
question). 

I can assure you that I am a law abiding citizen, and I try to
comply with the Finnish and the international laws.  But I have
never seen any information on the international validity of this US
per se absurd export law.  And until someone officially convinces me
otherwise, I consider this debacle an entirely internal US problem. 
(Perhaps I should coldly say that until officially approached, it is
none of my business). 

I live in Finland and interact with the international community.  US
is just one part of the latter, even if it often is an important and
a dominant part.

I have redirected potential followups to misc.legal.computing.

In the best of spirits, and meaning well:

   All the best, Timo

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