Re: Microsoft takes on ACT

["Robert I. Eachus" <rieachus@attbi.com>]

dewar@gnat.com (Robert Dewar) writes:
> I know there is an implicit smiley here, but still, just
> to answer this, of course such delivery systems would almost never be
> under the GPL so this is an (entertaining)
> rhetorical question


Florian Weimer wrote:
> But they might contain technology which cannot otherwise legally
> exported from the US: "A launch vehicle or payload shall not, by the
> launching of such vehicle, be considered export for the purposes of
> this subchapter." (ITAR, 120.17)


Gee, this gets very entertaining.  So if some Space Shuttle flight 
carries encryption software to the International Space Station, that is 
explicitly not export.  If an non-US Cosmonaut returns to Russia with 
that software, is it already outside of ITAR rules?  I think so.  Just 
don't be the astronaut that hands the software to the cosmonaut.  That 
could lead to the sort of good legal case that results in bad law.