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Re: crypto patch



On Thu, Apr 20, 2000 at 10:49:10PM -0400, Marshal Kar-Cheung Wong wrote:
> >>>>> "Adam" == Adam Shand <larry@alaska.net> writes:
> 
>     > with the new mellowing of usa crypto laws, is there any chance
>     > that the international kernel patch could be included in the
>     > default debian kernel?
> 
> Probably not.  Beside the crypto laws, there is also the DSFG that
> debian adheres to, and many of the encryption schemes have patents on
> them, thus makeing them non-free, and not in debian by default.

So only use encryption schemes like the ones in libmcrypt4 now in
woody's non-US/main -- fully DFSG compliant.


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