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Date:      Fri, 9 Oct 1998 15:34:06 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
To:        Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>
Cc:        committers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Ports-with-crypto; a prpopsal
Message-ID:  <199810091934.PAA24399@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199810091858.UAA12992@gratis.grondar.za>
References:  <199810091858.UAA12992@gratis.grondar.za>

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<<On Fri, 09 Oct 1998 20:58:56 +0200, Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za> said:

> We have a bunch of ports in the ports tree that are export restricted
> because they have cryptographic code in them.

The ports are not themselves export-restricted -- they are just
instructions on how to build certain software packages.  It's only the
external inputs and result of this process which are export-restricted
(and use-restricted in France).

> Suggestions? Flames? Cash?

What would be more useful would be for you (or somebody else) to
devise a mechanism for the non-US distribution of the distfiles and
packages.

-GAWollman

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