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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
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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. ;-)