Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2000 14:02:11 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: openssl in -current Message-ID: <20000220140211.K14682@dragon.nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <13362.951082342@zippy.cdrom.com>; from jkh@zippy.cdrom.com on Sun, Feb 20, 2000 at 01:32:22PM -0800 References: <20000220132647.H14682@dragon.nuxi.com> <13362.951082342@zippy.cdrom.com>
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On Sun, Feb 20, 2000 at 01:32:22PM -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. Then I am really missing the point and I wish it would be stated in suffient detail for one to be able to understand. * OpenBSD has the same distribution restraints concerning rsaref we do. * As an OpenBSD user in the USA, I have the same restrictions that I do as a FreeBSD user in the USA. Thus the patent issues are the same. I don't see where any reciprocal rights on patents between the USA and Canada comes into play here. While I don't know is how OpenBSD builds the two sets of bits, I do know how easy it was for me as a user to install 2.6 and get a RSA enabled crypto lib. > Yes, I think anybody can do the pkg_add step manually, but that's the > kind of "handwork" I was referring to. Ok, now we're getting on the same page of music. -- -- David (obrien@NUXI.com) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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