At 14:23 5/6/99 -0700, Glenn Cole wrote:
>Item Subject: cc:Mail Text
>NEWS.COM reports
>
>        U.S. export limits on encryption are unconstitutional, the Ninth
>        Circuit Court of Appeals ruled today.
>
>        A three-judge panel affirmed the U.S. District Court in San
>        Francisco's decision in Daniel Bernstein vs. the Justice
>        Department, according to Bernstein's attorney, Cindy Cohn.
>
>The argument (as I understand it) goes that software is language, so limits
>on software implies limits on language, which violates the First Amendment
>(free speech), which is unconstitutional.

So software is language (which can be copyrighted) and not product (which
can be patented), or is it both?  It will be interesting to see how this
works out.


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