Re: ITP: libmpeg3 -- an mpeg audio and video decoding library

[Taketoshi Sano <sano@debian.org>]

Hi.

In <[🔎] 20010402215606.A12309@ivywell.screaming.net>,
  on Mon, 02 Apr 2001 23:00:06 +0200,
    on Re: ITP: libmpeg3 -- an mpeg audio and video decoding library,
 Malcolm Parsons <malcolm@ivywell.screaming.net> wrote:

> non-US is for software that can not be *exported* from the US, it is legal 
> to use it *everywhere*.

Have you read the description for old gpg-rsa and gpg-rsaref ?
They were both in non-us/non-free, at least for potato
(maybe slink and hamm is the same at this point).

> It is illegal to *import* a circumvention device, like CSS, into the US.
> AFAIK it is legal to use CSS everywhere *except the US*.

The description of gpg-rsa said:

 Note that RSA is patented in the US until at least September, 2000; if
 you are encumbered by those US patents, please use gpg-rsaref package.
 See /usr/share/doc/gpg-rsa/copyright for more info.

Isn't this a software/package which can not be used in US ?

Regards.
-- 
  Taketoshi Sano: <sano@debian.org>,<sano@debian.or.jp>,<kgh12351@nifty.ne.jp>