Date: 13 Jul 2000 03:08:38 -0700 From: asami@FreeBSD.org (Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami) To: Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org> Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.osd.bsdi.com>, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org, archie@FreeBSD.org, will@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Export controlled ports Message-ID: <vqcn1jm8hqx.fsf@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu> In-Reply-To: Kris Kennaway's message of "Thu, 13 Jul 2000 02:28:48 -0700 (PDT)" References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0007130200400.14249-100000@freefall.freebsd.org>
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* From: Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org> * On 11 Jul 2000, Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami wrote: * * > Note that I only changed rsaref's RESTRICTED from "crypto" to "patent" * > -- we still can't ship the distfile or packages due to the RSA * > patent. When the patent expires, my understanding is that we are * > going to just switch over to the international version and remove * > RESTRICTED. This also means USE_OPENSSL will still mean RESTRICTED * > (by inference) on 3-stable machines which need security/rsaref. Kris, * > is this correct? * * Actually it's not just the patent, but the license on the software itself. * i.e. RSA Inc do not permit us to export the rsaref code, and we can't * currently use or export any other RSA implementations because of the * patent. Once the patent expires we still can't export rsaref (unless they * remove that license clause - unlikely, see below) - but we won't need/want * to anyway because it's crap (ports which build against it can be patched * to build against OpenSSL, which we WILL be able to distribute freely) Ok. So we are going to ditch rsaref and use the international version of OpenSSL after the patent expires, right? * The gnupg-rsa and librsaintl packages should also not be built for the * same reason, but it looks like they're also okay as they stand. Ok. * Quite a few of the ports, such as (I believe) cfs, specifically mention * not exporting the code in the license agreement - this was probably as a * reminder of the then-existing regulations and the author may well agree to * remove the clause if asked, but I don't know whether we can safely assume * that condition now to be removed automatically (e.g. rsaref is probably * never going to be relicensed since RSA also sell a commercial toolkit and * seem to consider releasing rsaref to have been a mistake). 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? ;) Satoshi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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