From owner-freebsd-current Tue Jan 18 10: 9:56 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix, from userid 758) id DA17C14EFC; Tue, 18 Jan 2000 09:58:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC26C1CD405; Tue, 18 Jan 2000 09:58:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kris@hub.freebsd.org) Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2000 09:58:21 -0800 (PST) From: Kris Kennaway To: Patrick Bihan-Faou Cc: Sheldon Hearn , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Mandating USA_RESIDENT In-Reply-To: <01fa01bf61d5$7162c550$040aa8c0@local.mindstep.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 18 Jan 2000, Patrick Bihan-Faou wrote: > If we are changing the meaning of "USA_RESIDENT", could we replace it by We're not. It's just that until now it hasn't really mattered if it wasn't set (the cases where it did matter, like whether or not to fetch a crypto port from a US site, it was required it to be set there). Now it needs to be set to do a buildword. > It seems to me that a things progress, the crypto regulation gets more > complicated everyday. Why not have a "CRYPTO_COUNTRY" variable that could be > set to "USA" "FRANCE" "CANADA" or "other" based where you live and weither > special consideration must be taken relative to the crypto code ? I don't know much about the restrictions of other countries. If the current crypto policies were a legal problem for someone else we can surely change them to suit, but I'd rather not complicate things even more than they are already without a reason.. > The other thing that could be set based on the CRYPTO_COUNTRY code is where > to get the FreeBSD crypto related source from. Well, right now there is only one non-US crypto repository (AFAIK), so "closest" is a degenerate case :-) Kris ---- "How many roads must a man walk down, before you call him a man?" "Eight!" "That was a rhetorical question!" "Oh..then, seven!" -- Homer Simpson To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message