From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Jul 29 2:25:59 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mta03-svc.ntlworld.com (mta03-svc.ntlworld.com [62.253.162.43]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BAB3237BB4C for ; Sat, 29 Jul 2000 02:25:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org) Received: from parish.my.domain ([62.253.84.67]) by mta03-svc.ntlworld.com (InterMail vM.4.01.02.27 201-229-119-110) with ESMTP id <20000729092543.EVRS16423.mta03-svc.ntlworld.com@parish.my.domain>; Sat, 29 Jul 2000 10:25:43 +0100 Received: (from mark@localhost) by parish.my.domain (8.9.3/8.9.3) id KAA00596; Sat, 29 Jul 2000 10:25:37 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from mark) Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2000 10:25:37 +0100 From: Mark Ovens To: Neil Blakey-Milner Cc: Chris BeHanna , FreeBSD-Stable Subject: Re: src code freeze is over for RELENG_4 Message-ID: <20000729102537.B236@parish> References: <20000729004706.D237@parish> <20000729020215.A69204@mithrandr.moria.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <20000729020215.A69204@mithrandr.moria.org>; from nbm@mithrandr.moria.org on Sat, Jul 29, 2000 at 02:02:16AM +0200 Organization: Total lack of Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 -- If I buy a copy of WinDelete, and it doesn't delete Windows, am I entitled to my money back? ________________________________________________________________ 51.44°N FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org 2.057°W My Webpage http://ukug.uk.freebsd.org/~mark mailto:marko@freebsd.org http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message