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Date:      Sun, 20 Feb 2000 13:32:22 -0800
From:      "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>
To:        obrien@FreeBSD.ORG
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: openssl in -current 
Message-ID:  <13362.951082342@zippy.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 20 Feb 2000 13:26:47 PST." <20000220132647.H14682@dragon.nuxi.com> 

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> On Sat, Feb 19, 2000 at 08:34:42PM -0800, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
> > 
> > 1. They're in Canada
> 
> What does that buy them?  They have the same restrictions on rsaref since
> it originated from the USA.

I don't believe they're under the same legal gun when it comes to the
patent issues.  This isn't a crypto export issue, again, this is an
issue of what people in the USA are technically allowed to do with the
RSA reference code.  If Canada has reciprocal rights on patents or
something then they're indeed no better off than we are and I rescind
the above statement.

> By handwork you man building, or installing?  When I put OpenBSD 2.6 on
> my sparc5, I did a normal install and then ftp'ed down the proper
> ssl-base package.  Then a simple pkg_add.  Since OpenBSD does not have
> our ``pkg_add -r'' functionalitiy, it wasn't as simple as we could make
> it.

Yes, I think anybody can do the pkg_add step manually, but that's the
kind of "handwork" I was referring to.  What the ports collection and
sysinstall both offer is a degree of "transparency" which is supposed
to go beyond this, however.  Even pkg_add -r only helps if you have a
working network connection at the time.

- Jordan


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