Nice try, but NEVER confuse a dictionary definition with a legal definition. In article <199405280642.XAA05875@jobe.shell.portal.com>, <nobody@shell.portal.com> wrote:

The US ITAR law exempts many things from export restrictions, among them, materials availiable in public libraries. It gives no special definition for a library. My American Heritage Dictionary defines "library" as, among other things, "An orginized collection of recorded data arranged for ease of use." IOW, an ftp site. Which means that if a program is available from a public ftp site, you're legally allowed to export it. :)

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nobody said:

The US ITAR law exempts many things from export restrictions, among them, materials availiable in public libraries.

The gotcha is that you can't necessarily *put* it in a library. It's like the publication catch-22. Eli ebrandt@hmc.edu