Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2000 15:16:35 -0800 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Victor Salaman <salaman@teknos.com>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: openssl in -current Message-ID: <41481.951002195@zippy.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 19 Feb 2000 14:53:00 PST." <Pine.BSF.4.21.0002191444110.82105-100000@freefall.freebsd.org>
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> It already does this if you get your crypto from internat. US mirror sites > only carry the neutered (no-RSA) version, but internat carries RSA and > builds it conditional on USA_RESIDENT. And why don't the USA sites have the RSAREF version? I'm still not sure I understand the compartmentalization here. > 2) if you don't build with any sort of RSA (i.e. USA_RESIDENT == YES and > you don't have the rsaref package installed) then you don't get > include/rsa.h but get everything else "standard". It's this rsaref thing that's hanging me up. Why is it either on or off vs on from location A or on from location B? > See the packages at http://www.freebsd.org/~kris/openssl/ for a better > definition of "standard". Mark should be putting the international ones on > internat sometime (*nudge*). I still don't think that the packages are going to help us much here. > Did you ever hear back from the lawyers about whether (and how) we can > freely distribute openssl (and other stuff) from the US? Apart from that > it does just reduce to the case of keeping the patent lawyers happy by > keeping the patented code away from US people. The lawyers haven't been willing to say anything about this right now, citing too large of a caseload to even begin untangling the Clinton administration's current position. - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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