Date: Tue, 30 Sep 1997 13:56:05 -0700 (PDT) From: Tom <tom@uniserve.com> To: Will Mitayai Keeso Rowe <thelab@nmarcom.com> Cc: Mikael Karpberg <karpen@ocean.campus.luth.se>, "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc make.conf Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970930134923.16169B-100000@shell.uniserve.com> In-Reply-To: <v0310280cb056f21f9fb5@[207.181.124.43]>
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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
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