Re: Bug free programs

[Ian Grant]

On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 1:29 PM, Mark H Weaver <address@hidden> wrote:
> [...] I led the development of the scannable PGP source code books that
> allowed PGP to be legally exported from the US fo the first time, along
> with the tools needed to convert the paper books back into electronic
> form with modest effort.

This is the most interesting thing anyone's said in the discussion so
far. Now you can teach me something.

If I had  modified GNU source and I'd compiled it to object code, and
put it in that "non-electronic media" you developed, and sold it,
without making the modified source available to people, would that be
selling Copyleft software? I think so.

Now tell me how it is _you_ know that what you did doesn't earn you
and Richard Stallman a fetching orange jump-suit each, and an
all-expenses-paid vacation at a Government holiday camp in the South
East Florida Keys, with power-showers every two hours and where you
get to listen to the same Eminem song (there is only one) 24 hours a
day?

http://www.pmddtc.state.gov/regulations_laws/documents/official_itar/ITAR_Part_121.pdf

Category VIII - Auxiliary Military Equipment
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(b) Military Information Security Assurance Systems and equipment, cryptographic
devices, software, and components specifically designed, developed,
modified, adapted, or configured for military applications (including
command, control and intelligence applications.

Ian