Here's another link on licensing of software engineers, this time from the ACM:
http://www.acm.org/serving/se_policy/report.html
it seems that cryptographic/security software, if we ever get the liability structure whose lack is often pointed out by Schneier ("we don't have good security because we don't have to"), may be a prime target for such licensing.
-david
How would such legislation affect those who call themselves SW : designers practitioners developers creators quality assessors implementors builders artists authors artisans ... Because they are not licensed SWEs they would not be able to get their obj modules signed to allow execution on legal HW? Illegal HW would be detected and prosecutable? An ineffective but burdensome SW Eng licensing bureaucracy will probably be set up that will limit or control the access of some developers to certain contracts or projects especially anything purchased using public funds or "affecting the safety of the public".