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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!news.caldera.com!enews.sgi.com!su-news-feed4.bbnplanet.com!su-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!news.apfel.de!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.2.1 on CDROM Date: 25 Apr 1997 07:54:41 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 27 Message-ID: <5jpo01$bo0@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <5jgap9$eef$3@flint.sentex.net> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:39726 gabor@vinyl.quickweb.com (Gabor Egressy) wrote: > I tried to buy FreeBSD on CDROM up here in Canada but was told that it > is illegal to bring it into Canada. That is what it says in the > Walnut Creek catalog. This would surprise me. The latest FreeBSD CD-ROMs (2.2.1 and 2.1.7) indeed ship with DES on-board. That's what Walnut Creek CDROM decided after consulting their lawyers, and based on the recent spectacular judge's decision about the US crypto export regulations. Concord CA is in the 50-miles circle around San Francisco and thus affected by this decision. So it might be possible that you're not allowed to re-export it from Canada then (i think that's the Canadian agreement with the US when it comes to the ITAR braindamage), but WC CDROM should legally be able to export it anywhere. Hmm, now thinking about it (and reading Phillipe's followup), i hope they didn't create headaches to our French friends... -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)