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Re: SSL and main



Michael Beattie <mickyb@es.co.nz> writes:

> On Wed, Sep 27, 2000 at 12:53:03PM -0400, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote:
> > 
> > Maybe I'm a little slow on the uptake but something just occurred to
> > me.  Wasn't Sep. 20 the date the RSA patent expired?  If so, let's start
> > the process of moving from non-us all the packages which are there simply
> > because of that patent.
> 
> s:non-us:non-US/non-free:
> 
> they must still stay on non-us.debian.org, but they may move to main. (AIUI)

RSA was always fine for non-US/main excepting RSARef based packages like
ssh-us. The patent was only relevant in the US.

-- 
greg



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