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Date:      Sat, 29 Jul 2000 10:25:37 +0100
From:      Mark Ovens <marko@freebsd.org>
To:        Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@mithrandr.moria.org>
Cc:        Chris BeHanna <behanna@zbzoom.net>, FreeBSD-Stable <stable@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: src code freeze is over for RELENG_4
Message-ID:  <20000729102537.B236@parish>
In-Reply-To: <20000729020215.A69204@mithrandr.moria.org>; from nbm@mithrandr.moria.org on Sat, Jul 29, 2000 at 02:02:16AM %2B0200
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0007281343450.43548-100000@freefall.freebsd.org> <Pine.WNT.4.21.0007281832530.339-100000@armani.yourfit.com> <20000729004706.D237@parish> <20000729020215.A69204@mithrandr.moria.org>

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On Sat, Jul 29, 2000 at 02:02:16AM +0200, Neil Blakey-Milner wrote:
> On Sat 2000-07-29 (00:47), Mark Ovens wrote:
> > >     The trouble is (as someone else pointed out), there are still
> > > countries in which private possession of strong crypto is illegal
> > > ( (not so)Great Britain comes to mind).
> > 
> > So what's your problem, sonny?
> > 
> > JFYI, crypto is now part of src-all on our mirrors.
> 
> That _is_ the problem.
> 
> The policy changed and it has ramifications on some of our users in some
> countries.  I had a list of problem countries, and another person also
> had one, and noone gave it much attention at all.
> 

I realize that. The original message cited the UK as an example of a
country where it is still illegal private individuals to own strong
crypto; I was pointing out that this is not the case.

> The whole point of the crypto distribution was to protect people who
> couldn't use crypto.  That included France at one stage, I believe, and
> I believe the Netherlands has some legislation coming up.  It still
> applies to many Asian and African countries (not South Africa, luckily),
> and some others.
> 
> And now it sucks to be them because they can't buy, download, or use the
> whole of FreeBSD without doing so illegally.
> 
> Neil
> -- 
> Neil Blakey-Milner
> Sunesi Clinical Systems
> nbm@mithrandr.moria.org

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