Re: Export restrictions of anti-virus software?

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1 total messages Started by Tim Martin; FSO; Soil Sciences Sat, 16 Jan 1993 00:20

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Author: Tim Martin; FSO; Soil Sciences
Date: Sat, 16 Jan 1993 00:20

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>From postings by Vesselin, Aryeh, and Frisk, I am informed 
that it would be against Canadian Law for me to "export" anti-
virus "shareware".

The Monkey virus, which originated in Canada, has been found in 
the US and in England.  The Killmonk program, an embarassingly
simple little snippet of code, also written in Canada (I haven't
been out of the country for months, something we Edmontonians notice
mid-winter), is one of few "convenient" ways of removing the Monkey
virus from a hard disk.  Killmonk is "freeware".  The entertaining
question of my week is "Am I breaking my country's Law by 
distributing Killmonk to persons and ftp sites outside Canada, 
to help them get rid of a virus that exported itself to them
from Canada?"   :)

Nothing like a little legal mirth to warm the winter spirit.

Tim.

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  Tim Martin                   *
  Spatial Information Systems  *   These opinions are my own:
  University of Alberta        *      My employer has none!
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