Re: EU Export Rating

On 14.04.2010 16:41, Andy Levy wrote:

>> If someone is located inside EU and has a copy of TSVN on a CD in his
>> pocket, and then he crosses the EU border, he "exported" TSVN.
>> It's bureaucracy logic. Has nothing to do with real logic ;-)
>
> What if he memorizes the source code inside the EU, leaves the EU, and
> then retypes it all?

There's an easier way:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretty_Good_Privacy

<quote>
Zimmermann challenged these regulations in a curious way. He published
the entire source code of PGP in a hardback book,[11] via MIT Press,
which was distributed and sold widely. Anybody wishing to build their
own copy of PGP could buy the $60 book, cut off the covers, separate the
pages, and scan them using an OCR program, creating a set of source code
text files. One could then build the application using the freely
available GNU C Compiler. PGP would thus be available anywhere in the
world. The claimed principle was simple: export of munitions—guns,
bombs, planes, and software—was (and remains) restricted; but the export
of books is protected by the First Amendment.
</quote>

:)

Stefan

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