Re: New non-us and main, and RSA
Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ualberta.ca> writes:
> It seems from what I have heard that we consider IDEA and RSA to be
> non-free due to the patents on them in various countries and this is
> why we have the gpg-rsa and gpg-idea modules in non-free. However we
> also have libssl, openssl, cipe and ssleay in main which all
> implement the IDEA (and RSA?) algorithms.
This is simply because at the time I split the non-US archive up I
didn't know if they used IDEA for sure, so I left them. I then never
had time to go back before Guy finished up, though I do plan to later.
--
James
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