From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 7 03:11:44 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1CA99106566B for ; Thu, 7 Oct 2010 03:11:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from merlyn@stonehenge.com) Received: from red.stonehenge.com (red.stonehenge.com [IPv6:2607:f2f8:3080::]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 023C88FC0A for ; Thu, 7 Oct 2010 03:11:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: by red.stonehenge.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id D0E407AB6; Wed, 6 Oct 2010 20:11:43 -0700 (PDT) From: merlyn@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz) To: Michael Powell References: <86fwwjyurd.fsf@red.stonehenge.com> <20101006215345.1a57c45c@gumby.homeunix.com> <86pqvnxbre.fsf@red.stonehenge.com> <20101006174309.407e4216@scorpio> <86d3rnxadh.fsf@red.stonehenge.com> x-mayan-date: Long count = 12.19.17.13.13; tzolkin = 3 Ben; haab = 6 Yax Date: Wed, 06 Oct 2010 20:11:43 -0700 In-Reply-To: (Michael Powell's message of "Wed, 06 Oct 2010 23:04:48 -0400") Message-ID: <864ocywvbk.fsf@red.stonehenge.com> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Like it or not, Theo has a point... freebsd is shipping export-restricted software in the core X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 07 Oct 2010 03:11:44 -0000 >>>>> "Michael" == Michael Powell writes: Michael> I was under the impression that the most onerous of these Michael> export rules and restrictions applied to crypto technology. If Michael> this is so, what I don't quite grasp is what do crypto export Michael> restrictions have to do with acpi? Is acpi a copyrighted, Michael> patented, or trademark otherwise owned by some entity? Quite Michael> possibly so as it is in contrib. I just have no idea who might Michael> "own" it. Or how it would fall afoul of crypto export Michael> restrictions. Exactly my point. Either it's crypto, and the whole distro is tainted and should be marked as such UP FRONT, or it's not, and the paragraph should be removed, if possible. Or a third alternative... use the ACPI implementation from OpenBSD, which doesn't have such a restriction. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 Smalltalk/Perl/Unix consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See http://methodsandmessages.posterous.com/ for Smalltalk discussion