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From: veit@mururoa.gmd.de (Holger Veit)
Subject: Re: FreeBSD outside of US??
Message-ID: <1993Aug19.135856.24990@gmd.de>
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References: <LMJM.93Aug19143408@kea.doc.ic.ac.uk>
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1993 13:58:56 GMT
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In article <LMJM.93Aug19143408@kea.doc.ic.ac.uk>, lmjm@doc.ic.ac.uk (Lee McLoughlin) writes:
|> Will there ever be a version of FreeBSD available outside of the US??
|>
|> The distribution I found contained the note:
|> -------
|> This is the 1.0 BETA release of FreeBSD. Note that this release can NOT
|> be exported from the US!
|>
|> Rodney W. Grimes <rgrimes@cdrom.com>
|> -------
|> --
|> --
|> Lee McLoughlin. Phone: +44 71 589 5111 X 5085
|> Dept of Computing, Imperial College, Fax: +44 71 581 8024
|> 180 Queens Gate, London, SW7 2BZ, UK. Email: L.McLoughlin@doc.ic.ac.uk
You might notice the BETA which means that this is not recommended for
general usage. But the reason is likely a different one:
This is obviously a version with the DES algorithm in libc, and everyone knows
about the paranoid opinion of the US DoD on possible information transfer
of such relevant code into countries behind the iron curtain
(wherever this is nowadays).
Since FreeBSD claims to tolerate GNU code, the moment should have been come to
throw out that stupid "restricted" BNR/2 crypt and place the GNU-crypt
lookalike in, otherwise we are going to have US and "rest-of-the-world"
releases forever.
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