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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!osuunx.ucc.okstate.edu!moe.ksu.ksu.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!agate!doc.ic.ac.uk!bright.ecs.soton.ac.uk!landin.ecs.soton.ac.uk!not-for-mail From: rsk@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Bob Kemp) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: FreeBSD outside of US?? Date: 22 Aug 1993 23:08:31 +0100 Organization: Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton Lines: 32 Message-ID: <258qov$i3e@landin.ecs.soton.ac.uk> References: <LMJM.93Aug19143408@kea.doc.ic.ac.uk> <1993Aug19.135856.24990@gmd.de> <CC40yC.JGq@sugar.NeoSoft.COM> <D87-MAL.93Aug22121636@mumrik.nada.kth.se> <WS.93Aug22212223@kurt.tools.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: landin.ecs.soton.ac.uk In <WS.93Aug22212223@kurt.tools.de> ws@tools.de (Wolfgang Solfrank) writes: [...] >This means: if we put together a version of bsd with crypt routines >written elsewhere and distribute it via the usual ftp channels, people >from outside the US would not be allowed to fetch it from a site located >within the US. But how about splitting off the programs that use crypt as seems to be done in NetBSD. From what I can see (via ftp) their main distribution sets use a dummy crypt, plus there is small separate distribution of programs like vipw, su, etc compiled with the real crypt + src for DES crypt. Only the latter cannot be exported. To solve Lee McLoughlin's original problem why not do this _and_ put the DES distribution set in another directory (with appropriate (symlink?) pointers). It is a bit more work but would make life much easier for non-US users (and FTP mirror sites). The key point is surely to have the main binary & src directories free of crypt. Presumably we can ourselves (or some kind archive manager:-) get a compatible crypt (GNU?) from Europe, insert it and recompile half a dozen programs to _legally_ produce an equivalent distribution set of crypt-using programs + src. Bob -- Robert Kemp Internet: rsk@ecs.soton.ac.uk Phone: (0703) 59 31 22 ECS Dept, Southampton Univ, Highfield, Southampton, S09 5NH, UK "Rose bushes have thorns; thorn bushes bear roses"