Re: [ECOS] eCos andIPSec

[Eric Doenges <Eric dot Doenges at DynaPel dot com>]

Andrew Lunn wrote:
> > Didn't the Clinton administration remove this restriction because the
> > only thing it was achieving was to hinder legitimate U.S. software
> > exports ?
>
>
> Don't know. Its not my area of knowledge. All the web site you
> referenced says was the restrictions were relaxed, not removed.
>
> Also, with things like the DMCA, Patriot act, it seems better to me to
> try to distribute stuff like this from a free country rather than a
> pseudo free country.

After some more searching, I found
http://www.freeswan.org/freeswan_snaps/CURRENT-SNAP/doc/politics.html#exlaw
which seems to prove your point (at least for me). I had thought the
U.S. government had outgrown this silliness ...
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