Hey folks, let's be real clear about this: The ITAR do NOT apply to books. Repeat: The ITAR do NOT apply to books. On Fri, 12 Jul 1996, Mark M. wrote: [...]
This isn't quite analogous to the original problem of a software company making good-faith efforts to prevent a program from being exported. AFAIK, MIT did not try to prevent the book from being exported (of course, the State Department never did approve or deny their request to export the book). Sandia
State told Karn that it did not have jurisdiction over books.
could claim that MIT came very close to violating ITAR, but the same claim
"The ITAR do not apply to books"
could not be made if the issue was a software program which was export-controlled.
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