From owner-freebsd-ports Thu Jul 13 3:19:39 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.ORG [204.216.27.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D8B2E37B56F; Thu, 13 Jul 2000 03:19:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@FreeBSD.org) Received: from localhost (kris@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id DAA68777; Thu, 13 Jul 2000 03:19:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@FreeBSD.org) X-Authentication-Warning: freefall.freebsd.org: kris owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 03:19:36 -0700 (PDT) From: Kris Kennaway To: Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org, archie@FreeBSD.org, will@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Export controlled ports In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 13 Jul 2000, Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami wrote: > Ok. So we are going to ditch rsaref and use the international version > of OpenSSL after the patent expires, right? That would be a good goal, and shouldn't be too difficult. In fact you could probably do reverse shims which map RSAREF API calls into OpenSSL ones (i.e. the exact opposite of the OpenSSL->RSAREF ones currently in OpenSSL :-) I should check with the OpenSSL guys to see if they plan to do this. > Hmm. I guess we should keep those disabled for now then. > > Does someone want to go check the licenses of all the ports I listed? > (Will, you've got a few hours to kill? ;) The ones which explicitly mention export probably should stay disabled, but it would be good to attempt to contact the author for exemption/relicensing prior to the freeze. e.g. cfs (by Matt Blaze, he of the sniffed EBay account password at USENIX :-) should be pretty easy to get relicensed. Kris -- In God we Trust -- all others must submit an X.509 certificate. -- Charles Forsythe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message