From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Jul 28 15:35: 6 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail.yourfit.com (28.wxfr1.xdsl.nauticom.net [209.195.150.61]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF8DE37B99C for ; Fri, 28 Jul 2000 15:34:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from behanna@zbzoom.net) Received: from armani.yourfit.com (armani.yourfit.com [192.168.1.120]) by mail.yourfit.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA12819 for ; Fri, 28 Jul 2000 18:34:45 -0400 Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2000 18:34:45 -0400 (Eastern Daylight Time) From: Chris BeHanna Reply-To: Chris BeHanna To: FreeBSD-Stable Subject: Re: src code freeze is over for RELENG_4 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 28 Jul 2000, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Fri, 28 Jul 2000, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > > > Is it worth doing a (non-CD) 4.1.5 release the day after the > > > patent expires? > > > > Why? It's not as if the RSA code is bundled with the system, and > > to get it into such a state would probably take more than a day. > > :-) > > In fact it should be as simple as removing a whole bunch of makefile > gunk which is designed to keep RSA *out* of the system at present. > Most people will already have the source file on their system anyway > (unless they cvsup from cvsup3, which doesn't carry it) - this was > one of the changes that went with the crypto repo unification. > > It should take no more than 1/2 hour + build testing time :-) 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). If you bundle RSA in with the base, then there are a whole lot of people (private and commercial) who will no longer be able to take FreeBSD updates. -- Chris BeHanna Software Engineer (at yourfit.com) behanna@zbzoom.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message