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Re: Depenency Bugs in Debian Packages (long)



On Tue, 10 Aug 1999, Bdale Garbee wrote:

> It is unfortunate that a) the BIND maintainers chose to be satisfied with a
> license for the RSA-contributed library that is not *quite* DFSG-compliant, 
> and b) that the BIND 8.2.X sources do not make it easy to optionally include 
> or exclude the DNSSEC functionality.  I hear rumors that both issues are being
> looked at by various folks... but until there's code, it's just rumors.

When RSA looses its patent, will BIND become free again or will someone
have to rewrite the RSA library? What about export concerns?

Jason


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