Karanbir Singh wrote:
I didnt think the GPL was influenced by internal US politics :) - and I hope that I am not wrong.
I *think* that he is referring to crypto export policies. The current US export policies (and that of many other countries through the Wassenaar agreement) allow to export opensource crypto code, except:
"(2) You may not knowingly export or reexport source code or products developed with this source code to Cuba, Iran, Iraq, Libya, North Korea, Sudan or Syria."
Source: http://www.epic.org/crypto/export_controls/regs_1_00.html
Though I would not be suprised that this list has been changed in the meanwhile. Besides that some countries still have very strict crypto export policies, e.g. France. A complete survey of country laws can be found at:
http://rechten.uvt.nl/koops/cryptolaw/
-- Daniel