Why it is legal to export PGP under ITAR

[Vance Cochrane (B.E.S.T.)]

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

I am not a lawyer so don't scorch me...
Where does one obtain a legal definition if it is not in Blacks Law Dictionary?
Isn't the next source a "regular" dictionary?

...thats what they do on Perry Mason ;-)


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