Re: Export restrictions ruled unconstitutional

Tom Whore (tomwhore@inetarena.com)
Fri, 7 May 1999 03:03:57 -0700 (PDT)


On Fri, 7 May 1999, Robert Harley wrote:

--]I've been reading a bit more (hard not to - it's on every news service).
--]
--]The decision seems to come down to: source code is free speech.
--]This is music to my ears!

Where the line blurs in the decisson is when a program is a Service and
not a pile of words....

In short we are going to see a legal action set on wether something is a
Noun or a Verb.

you can read pgp sourc code but you can pgp a file.

something on these lines, your examples may vary.

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