From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 30 13:57:06 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id NAA21589 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 30 Sep 1997 13:57:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.uniserve.com (dns1-van.uniserve.com [204.244.163.48]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id NAA21583; Tue, 30 Sep 1997 13:56:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from shell.uniserve.com [204.244.210.252] by mail.uniserve.com with smtp (Exim 1.70 #1) id 0xG9Ky-0005bU-00; Tue, 30 Sep 1997 13:56:08 -0700 Date: Tue, 30 Sep 1997 13:56:05 -0700 (PDT) From: Tom To: Will Mitayai Keeso Rowe cc: Mikael Karpberg , "Jordan K. Hubbard" , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc make.conf In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 30 Sep 1997, Will Mitayai Keeso Rowe wrote: > I'm somewhat confused about tis whole USA_RESIDENT thing. The more i > reaseach, the more i seem to wonder if Canadian Residents can also use the > USA_RESIDENT stuff without feeling guilty about it or having the Men in > Black show up on their doorstep. Is it ok for me to generally consider > USA_RESIDENT to mean US_OR_CA_RESIDENT? Or is it a package-by-package thing? > > The whole lifting of export restrictions between the US and Canada seems to > be an odd, poorly documented thing, which is annoying since several of the > US cryptology routines were developed by canadians in the first place. :( There are two issues: - copyrights - export restriction on cyrpto Stuff that uses RSA is (like pgp) under copyright in the US. This copyright does not seem to apply to Canada, so I always use the "international" (I find it more straightford to build) version of pgp. I peronsonally think that you'd want to set USA_RESIDENT to no, whenever possible, just because the build process is generally less complex. > -Mit Tom