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From: veit@mururoa.gmd.de (Holger Veit)
Subject: Re: FreeBSD outside of US??
Message-ID: <1993Aug23.083546.5676@gmd.de>
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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> <258qov$i3e@landin.ecs.soton.ac.uk>
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1993 08:35:46 GMT
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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.
So this brings up another interesting idea. Say we had a free site outside
the US, reasonably fast accessible from the US internet area,
give the FreeBSD people an account to log in there, and let them compose
the release of FreeBSD with "some crypt version" from Denmark. There should
be no legal restrictions on distributing this product, because the BSD code
itself is not restricted, and no line of crypt would have left the states.
What then about *importing* code into the US? Since numerous US ftp sites
carry gnu-crypt, and this should have come into the land through some network,
*I* would consider hosting of FreeBSD on an non-US site a solution to this
problem. Perhaps someone could explain the real legal status of such a
workaround?
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