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From: "Dave Rickey" <daver@mythicentertainment.com>
Newsgroups: nu.kanga.list.mud-dev
Date: Fri, 3 May 2002 10:03:18 -0400
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Organization: Kanga.Nu
From: "Sean Kelly" <sean@ffwd.cx>
> Software in general seems to be throwing the lawmakers for a loop.
> Whatever happened to the lawsuit where that cryptography professor
> won the ruling that source code is speech? It hasn't seemed to
> have applied in the cases regarding DeCSS.
As I recall, it was "speech" if it was on paper, and "munitions" if
it was ASCII on a floppy disc. Hence the PGP source was published
in a book form, exported (legally) and then OCR'd and compiled
overseas.
--Dave
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