Re: Is libcrypt illegal to export or not?
On Thu, Jan 21, 1999 at 10:09:41PM -0500, Zack Weinberg wrote:
>
> A binary libcrypt is included in the Debian libc6 package, which is
> not marked illegal to export from the US. I can't find the source
> package to see if it's in there too. The upstream libc maintainers
> think libcrypt is illegal to export from the US, and go through
> considerable hoop-jumping to avoid doing so (source or binary).
>
> Who's right?
That's a good question.
It is in the source package, and it might be illegal. The general
opinion is that it's OK, or at least, better not talked about. It tends
to get easily ignored.
>From what I've heard, it should be all right as is. But do NOT take my
word on that.
Dan
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