Re: Question about non-US
On Tue, May 20, 2003 at 06:19:00PM -0400, Morgon Kanter wrote:
> I've been looking to take over the orphaned package vtun (and am nearly
> complete packaging it. It has a number of autotools issues that need to
> be addressed still). However, I noticed that it is a non-US package.
>
> I'm wondering if this is exactly a problem, because I live in the US.
> Can I simply take it over and still have it uploaded to the non-US
> section of the archive? The policy manual doesn't say anything besides
> non-US is for cryptographic code, and says nothing against a US
> resident uploading to non-US, but it's still a good idea for me to
> get clarification.
We now have cryptographic software in the main archive. Since vtun is
free, it should be moved from non-US to main.
(The answer before the implementation of crypto-in-main would probably
have been "yes, but entirely at your own legal risk", I think.)
Cheers,
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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