User Agreement

Usually when i get new software i couldn't give a toss about the user agreement and just click accept regardless to whatever it says. Today i got this new Zip reader with this agreement

I hereby agree, certify and warrant that:

I am not located in or a citizen/national of, Cuba, Iran, Iraq, North Korea,
Libya, Sudan or Syria or any that is subject to an embargo by the US (the prohibited Destination) i am not obtaining this software for any person who is located or citizen of a prohibited destination

the united states government has not suspended, revoked or denied my export privileges.

yeah i think i understand what it says but why? it's just free software

It puts the lotion on its skin. It does what its told!

The US doesn't want you trading to those countries... kinda gay since this is a capitalist economy....

A few years ago to U.S. didn't want powerful encryption software to be expoted to other countires. It would have been considered criminal, on par arms trading.

Which was pretty stupid, but we are talking about government.
This was even before 128bit and 256bit became industry standard.

The military and goverment always want to keep a few years ahead of civilians and especially other countirs. And they usally do.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&rls=GGLG%2CGGLG%3A2005-35%2CGGLG%3Aen&q=illegal+to+export+encryption&btnG=Search

I don't understand why it says citizens. Surely you could be an Iraqi or Cuban living in the UK or Germany and still be allowed to use Zip?

mad

Originally posted by leestatic
Usually when i get new software i couldn't give a toss about the user agreement and just click accept regardless to whatever it says. Today i got this new Zip reader with this agreement

I hereby agree, certify and warrant that:

I am not located in or a citizen/national of, Cuba, Iran, Iraq, North Korea,
Libya, Sudan or Syria or any that is subject ...[text shortened]... y export privileges.

yeah i think i understand what it says but why? it's just free software

Originally posted by mmanuel
what program was it?