Re: Upcoming Debian 2.0 Release
On Fri, Jul 17, 1998 at 11:42:55AM -0400, Stephen J. Carpenter wrote:
> > I was just going through the licences for the non-us stuff in an attempt to
> > find out what we can put where for the CD's, and as far as I can see, the only
> > non-us packages that would qualify for main (if we ignored US law) are:
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> >
> > apache-ssl
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^
> This does not qualify for main (last I checked)...if I remember right...
> it uses the RSAREF library...and according the licence on that library
> you must obtain a special licence ($$$) from RSA to use it comercially
> but it is otherwise free.
> (I was reading abotu this a while ago...am I mistaken?)
RSA patent only holds in the US, so using apache-ssl in US without
a license is criminal, but the rest of the world is fair game.
PGP has some good docs on this.
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