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Re: Attention, RH Resellers



On Tue, Oct 05, 1999, Eli Marmor wrote about "Attention, RH Resellers":
> There are resellers of RedHat among linux-il subscribers (e.g. PF1,
> Software Sources, TclTek, etc.), and some of them use (sometimes)
> trips to bring CDs and packages, and not only a normal shipping.
> Since the 6.1 package that RH ships for foreign countries lacks
> many features (not only crypto and 128 bit support, but also Star-
> Office and so on), and since there is no Israeli law against IMPORT
> of such stuff into Israel, it can be nice if they could CHECK the
> possibility of buying the FULL 6.1 packages there, and bringing
> them into Israel. I'm not a lawyer, so maybe there is a problem
> with it, but it must be checked (I know that the American law
> prohibits RedHat from selling/shipping the full package to foreign
> countries, but it does not prohinit it from selling it to a person
> in a store in America and so on).

I have two reservations about what you said:
First, as we discussed previously in this group, importing the crypto
parts to Israel, as well as actually using them, *may* be illegal
according to Israeli laws...

Second, it is important to understand that American law does not apply
only to American citizens: for example, as an Israeli citizen you're not
allowed to murder someone in the US, and if you're caught in the US doing
that, you'd be tried and sentenced in the US.
How does this apply in this case? The American ITAR (International Traffic
in Arms Regulations) prohibit the export from the US of certain kinds
of encryption software. Now, you're right that if Redhat sold it to you in
a store in America in good faith then they are not culpable, but *you* -
the guy who took that CD out of the US and into Israel - broke
the ITAR laws! I'm not saying the CIA will hunt you down, but if the
Americans for some reason will want to give you a hard time, you can forget
about ever entering the US again...

The usual I'm-not-a-lawyer disclaimer applies :)

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