Re: Debian

[David Roundy <droundy@civet.berkeley.edu>]

On Sun, Aug 19, 2001 at 06:49:29PM +1000, Joel Mayes wrote:
> >>>>> "Tandex" == Tandex  <tand3x@yahoo.com> writes:
> 
>     Tandex> I am new to debian and I wonder what is difrent betven US
>     Tandex> and non-US debian?
> 
> G'day Tandex,
> 
> The US has some draconion exporting laws. i.e. It's illegal to export
> encryption software from the US even if that software was originated
> outside the US.

More accurately, US used to have these draconian export laws.  The laws
have changed, but debian still has its crypto stuff in non-US.
-- 
David Roundy
http://civet.berkeley.edu/droundy/