On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 06:34:30PM -0700, Stephen Zander wrote:
> >>>>> "Walter" == Walter Landry <wlandry@xxxxxxxx> writes:
> Walter> DSS and IDEA are both patented in Europe, so putting it in
> Walter> non-us won't help. There is also the minor problem that
> Walter> non-us is going the away.
> I personally don't believe non-US is going away until the entire world
> suports software patents. Crypto is not the only reason for it's
> existence, just the most obvious one.
> Walter> It is crypto, so you should talk to the release manager
> Walter> about how to handle it. I only know what he wants done
> Walter> for software currently in non-us.
> For the rest, I'll remove IDEA, DSS & LUC from the upstream tarball,
> put that in non-us/main for now, package the IDEA code separately and
> put it in non-us/non-free
Additionally, there is no plan yet to migrate the contents of
non-US/non-free, most of which are not covered under the export
exemption that we're using for non-US/main. The crypto-in-main
migration is happening because it benefits our users and resellers to
have as much of the distribution as possible available from a single
source (the main archive), not because people want non-US to disappear
altogether.
Steve Langasek
postmodern programmer
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