Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2000 14:58:43 -0700 From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> To: Roelof Osinga <roelof@nisser.com> Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 4.0 CD, crypto and SSH Message-ID: <200006192158.OAA09783@mass.osd.bsdi.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 19 Jun 2000 23:49:49 %2B0200." <394E957D.B697C7C7@nisser.com>
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> Mike Smith wrote: > > > > > > Er, why not just install the rsaref port, like it tells you to? > > > > > > Ehm... I am not in the US, and my rsaref port's License says: > > > > > > 6. You can't send or transmit (or cause to be transmitted) > > > RSAREF outside the United States or Canada, or give it to > > > anyone who is not a U.S. or Canadian citizen or doesn't have > > > a "green card." > > > > You'll note that a goodly number of the MASTER_SITES for rsaref aren't in > > the USA or Canada... > > But surely they do not hold that library. One would have to wonder why they are listed as MASTER_SITES then, wouldn't one? > After all, that would > necessarily mean that the lib *has* been transmitted from the > US in a blatant violation of said licence. Downloading it from > such a site would make one an accessory after the fact (or > whatever the heck the correct expression is ;). It would turn > one into an accomplice. In fact inciting people to commit > illegal acts is a crime in and of itself! <g>. Since this is a clickwrap license, violating it isn't "illegal". There isn't even any widely accepted legal precedent on the validity of such licenses. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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