Re: Export restrictions of anti-virus software?

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1 total messages Started by Fridrik Skulason Thu, 07 Jan 1993 21:10

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Author: Fridrik Skulason
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1993 21:10

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bontchev@fbihh.informatik.uni-hamburg.de (Vesselin Bontchev) writes:

>A check with Ottawa resulted in the statement that F-PROT was export 
>restricted (controlled) as shareware did not meet the criteria of this 
>general "software" note... Therefore SCAN by McAfee also would not 
>meet the requirements.

Extremely silly, of course....not that it affects either us or McAfee, of
course - we export our programs to Canada, not from there, but I find it
extremely hard to believe that anybody takes this regulation seriously.

Of course, there is not that much Canadian anti-virus software around, is
there :-)

- -frisk
Fridrik Skulason      Frisk Software International     phone: +354-1-694749
Author of F-PROT      E-mail: frisk@complex.is         fax:   +354-1-28801

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