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Re: Legal Stuff!

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From: Vesselin Bontchev
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 14:21
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strnlght@netcom.com (David Sternlight) writes:

> You seem not to be listening here. The issue of the legality of PGP is
> not a patent one but a Munitions Act one, since the U.S. copies were
> brought in from outside the U.S. without a Munitions Act import
> license, and since PGP includes IDEA, it requires one.

I am listening very carefully here... It was -you- who said that PGP
cannot be imported in the USA due to the patent infringement issues.
In the same message you admited that the ITAR restrictions issue is
debatable. Maybe you should read your own messages more carefully.

Regards,
Vesselin
-- 
Vesselin Vladimirov Bontchev          Virus Test Center, University of Hamburg
Tel.:+49-40-54715-224, Fax: +49-40-54715-226      Fachbereich Informatik - AGN
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e-mail: bontchev@fbihh.informatik.uni-hamburg.de    D-2000 Hamburg 54, Germany
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Subject: Re: Legal Stuff!
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