Date: Tue, 9 Nov 1999 11:34:54 -0800 (PST) From: Kris Kennaway <kris@hub.freebsd.org> To: Brian Feldman <green@FreeBSD.org> Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/security/openssh Makefile ports/security/openssh/patches patch-bb patch-ab patch-ap patch-ar patch-at Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9911091128590.40282-100000@hub.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <199911091243.EAA51518@freefall.freebsd.org>
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On Tue, 9 Nov 1999, Brian Feldman wrote: > Log: > Make some various cleanups. Note that I did not add RESTRICTED since this is > in no way cryptographically encumbered code. The fact that it's > redistributed by me from freefall is completely coincidental. Not that I want to keep harping on this, but the definition of "cryptographic code" seems to include, as far as I've heard and been told in the past, code which uses an external library to provide an overall cryptographic function. Otherwise everyone would just write their code to a common API (e.g. the openssl one) and escape the restrictions. In the past to get around this people have had to write their code so that it uses a generic "transform" layer which ostensibly provides another function but which can be replaced with cryptographic primitives. If it was just you who was making the decision to redistribute on your own site, I wouldn't mind, but by putting it on freefall you also implicate the FreeBSD project in any potential legal nastiness, which isn't something I'd like to see without explicit permission from TPTB. The PR I referenced in the earlier mail points to an internationally-hosted site which contains the tarball, which is freely available by any definition - can't you just switch to that and remove any possibility of claims of illegality? Kris ---- Cthulhu for President! For when you're tired of choosing the _lesser_ of two evils.. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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