German government press release on Wassenaar

[Alexander Kjeldaas]

On Wed, Dec 09, 1998 at 08:04:00PM +0100, Ulf Möller wrote:
> 
> 2.) The government has acknowledged that public domain software
> remains unrestricted. This also applies to copyrighted software such
> as PGP which "has been made available without restrictions upon its
> further dissemination".

I applied for an examination of the Open Source definition to the
department for foreign affairs in Norway.  The response (no surprise)
was that Open Source is compliant with what the Wassenaar-agreement
calls "public domain" software.

astor

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