From owner-freebsd-current Thu Jan 20 21:59:59 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix, from userid 758) id 9CEBE153EF; Thu, 20 Jan 2000 21:59:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 93CF81CD5E0; Thu, 20 Jan 2000 21:59:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kris@hub.freebsd.org) Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 21:59:57 -0800 (PST) From: Kris Kennaway To: Terje Elde Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NO_IDEA In-Reply-To: <20000119213512.A40812@best.xti.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 19 Jan 2000, Terje Elde wrote: > Because of copyright issues OpenSSL is being built with -DNO_IDEA. IMHO > it's bad to do this for all systems, as it's only limited in some > countries. > > What I'm wondering if we could do is to add a COUNTRY=whatever, which > could be used to look up a value in a file which could provide information > about patent issues for algorithms like IDEA, as well as be a nice index > to which ftp server to use by default. This has already been suggested..it won't be implemented for 4.0, but might be looked at afterwards. The problem is the extra complexity it adds.. Kris ---- "How many roads must a man walk down, before you call him a man?" "Eight!" "That was a rhetorical question!" "Oh..then, seven!" -- Homer Simpson To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message