On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 06:34:30PM -0700, Stephen Zander wrote: > >>>>> "Walter" == Walter Landry <wlandry@ucsd.edu> writes: > Walter> DSS and IDEA are both patented in Europe, so putting it in > Walter> non-us won't help. There is also the minor problem that > Walter> non-us is going the away. > I personally don't believe non-US is going away until the entire world > suports software patents. Crypto is not the only reason for it's > existence, just the most obvious one. > Walter> It is crypto, so you should talk to the release manager > Walter> about how to handle it. I only know what he wants done > Walter> for software currently in non-us. > For the rest, I'll remove IDEA, DSS & LUC from the upstream tarball, > put that in non-us/main for now, package the IDEA code separately and > put it in non-us/non-free Additionally, there is no plan yet to migrate the contents of non-US/non-free, most of which are not covered under the export exemption that we're using for non-US/main. The crypto-in-main migration is happening because it benefits our users and resellers to have as much of the distribution as possible available from a single source (the main archive), not because people want non-US to disappear altogether. Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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