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Date:      Fri, 6 Aug 2004 22:49:38 +0200
From:      Wilko Bulte <wb@freebie.xs4all.nl>
To:        Paul Richards <paul@originative.co.uk>
Cc:        cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/bin/ed Makefile src/gnu/usr.bin/cvs/cvs Makefile src/kerberos5 Makefile.inc src/lib/libfetch Makefile src/lib/libpam/libpam Makefile src/lib/libpam/modules/pam_krb5 Makefile src/lib/libpam/modules/pam_ksu Makefile ...
Message-ID:  <20040806204938.GA38521@freebie.xs4all.nl>
In-Reply-To: <1091823800.17455.9.camel@myrddin>
References:  <200408060727.i767R87w004556@repoman.freebsd.org> <1091818349.17455.2.camel@myrddin> <6.1.0.6.1.20040806122530.03d6cb40@popserver.sfu.ca> <1091823800.17455.9.camel@myrddin>

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On Fri, Aug 06, 2004 at 09:23:20PM +0100, Paul Richards wrote..
> On Fri, 2004-08-06 at 20:36, Colin Percival wrote:
> > At 11:52 06/08/2004, Paul Richards wrote:
> > >On Fri, 2004-08-06 at 08:27, Colin Percival wrote:
> > >>   Join the 21st century: Cryptography is no longer an optional component
> > >>   of releases.
> > >This might not be as dead an issue as people think. From information
> > >I've received recently it seems that exporting crypto from the UK now
> > >requires an export license.
> > 
> > When I asked DTI about crypto a couple years ago, their response
> > was "it's open source?  In that case, go right ahead".  Of course, the
> > usual caveats about not exporting to embargoed countries and not
> > assisting in the production of WMD still apply, but those restrictions
> > would apply regardless of whether we ship cryptographic binaries.
> 
> In this case it wasn't open source, it was a commercial product that had
> FreeBSD in it, specifically it was "tangible" and that's significant
> when interpreting the export rules.

And that is something that the commercial exporter has to address, right?

-- 
Wilko Bulte				wilko@FreeBSD.org



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