Re: Directory permissions (keep root out)
From: Nico Kadel-Garcia (nkadel_at_comcast.net)
Date: 01/25/04
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Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2004 00:01:45 -0500
"John Wingate" <johnww@worldpath.net> wrote in message
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> /dev/rob0 <rob0@gmx.co.uk> wrote:
> > In article <bup9gr$r6t$1@geraldo.cc.utexas.edu>,
> > D. Hampton Finger wrote:
> >> I work for a research entity which has some software that is not for
> >> export outside the U.S.A.. We have to utilize it on a academic
computer
> >> system which will be administrated by a non-US citizen, I.E. breaking
> >> the "not for export" part of the license agreement.
>
> > If this is for real ... (it's so silly as to sound implausible) ... I
> > think you need legal advice, not technical advice. Only a lawyer could
> > come up with such absurd rules, so perhaps a lawyer could figure out how
> > you can pretend you're not breaking them.
>
> Yes, he needs legal advice. If the software was not developed in-house,
> perhaps he should also contact the authors and ask them how to handle the
> situation--they might have encountered similar cases before.
>
> > Where is this "non-citizen"? If s/he is in the USA, please explain how
> > the software was "exported".
>
> The "not for export" part of the license agreement probably prohibits
> other acts besides exporting as you or I would understand it, probably
> something like this notice:
>
> EXPORT CONTROL WARNING
> WARNING--This document contains technical data whose export
> (including transmission to non-resident aliens) is restricted by
> the Arms Export Control Act (22 U.S.C. 2751 et seq.) or the
> Export Administration Act of 1979, as amended, (50 U.S.C. 2401
> et seq.). Violations of these export laws are subject to
> administrative, civil, and criminal penalties.
>
> Anyone in the US on temporary visa would be a non-resident alien. You
> would have to read the indicated parts of the U.S. Code to really know
> what the restrictions are.
Yeah, those rules were found unconstitutional when they were run by the
Customs department, so instead of repealing them, the feds transferred them
to the Commerce department and pretended that "they don't interfere with
people, Honest(tm)!". The rules are nasty, and while a casual hacker/cracker
can download all sorts of tools from overseas (such as the xs4all.nl server
in the Netherlands!), actually publishing and teaching your developments in
the States can lead to all sorts of legal grief.
Some of my friends and acquaintances ahve run into problems with computer
courses at MIT due to these restrictions.
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