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Date:      Thu, 7 Sep 2000 12:32:32 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
To:        Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: USA_RESIDENT variable is no longer needed ?
Message-ID:  <200009071632.MAA30137@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0009070021200.66592-100000@freefall.freebsd.org>
References:  <20000907141506O.matusita@jp.FreeBSD.org> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0009070021200.66592-100000@freefall.freebsd.org>

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<<On Thu, 7 Sep 2000 00:23:22 -0700 (PDT), Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.ORG> said:

>> Moreover, can we also throw USA_RESIDENT variable away from ports ?

> Perhaps..I'm not immediately sure.

This is almost certainly not the last patent issue we'll have to deal
with.  Unfortunately, it is probably the last one which can be dealt
with so simply (since the U.S. has now managed to stick its idiotic
patents on everybody else).

-GAWollman

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