> No brave person outside the US appears to be advertising the availability
> of precompiled or at least per-merged versions of the code.
They don't need to be particularly brave, especially if they write the
SSL hooks themselves, they just have to not care about the free software
movement. In many countries, they would only be in breach of copyright,
and only the Lynx developers could take legal action against them;
that's unlikely to happen, but relying on the copyright being a paper
tiger would mean weakening the copyright protection of the "free"-ness
of a lot of other software.
(Note many countries have their own export legislation, that is often
aligned, sometimes by treaty, with the US.)
