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Re: What "Personal Security Manager"?



On Fri, Nov 17, 2000 at 04:41:11PM -0500, Richard A Nelson wrote:
> On Fri, 17 Nov 2000, Joseph Carter wrote:
> 
> > The only other thing we must do is send a notification to the government
> > that we are doing this - we must do it for ftp.debian.org, but not for
> > mirrors necessarily.  Why this is required is anybody's guess.  Several
> > other non-US packages have already been included in main despite the fact
> > that some of them directly include crypto code.  The fact that we have
> > done this coupled with the fact that we decided not to jump through these
> > minor hoops - or even seek legal advise on the issue - could put us at
> > some risk.
> 
> Well, who do we have to brow-beat to get this done?!?

We're in the midst of trying to get some sound legal advice on this, I
think.  Wichert would know better.

Dan

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|   Debian GNU/Linux Developer    __    Carnegie Mellon University   |
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