Re: Debian

[Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>]

On Sun, Aug 19, 2001 at 07:16:03AM -0700, David Roundy wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 19, 2001 at 06:49:29PM +1000, Joel Mayes wrote:
> > 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,

No, the administration's declared interpretation of those laws has
changed. AFAIK all the BXA notification stuff was just regulatory
changes, not changes in the law.

> but debian still has its crypto stuff in non-US.

There has been a lot of discussion recently among a team of developers
and lawyers about whether that can and should be changed.

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Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]