Nikolaus Rath <nikol...@rath.org> writes: > More interesting (in my opinion): if US developers can safely upload > crypto packages to US hosted debian servers, but Debian then makes these > packages available to everyone in the world for download, why isn't this > export of cryptographic packages a problem for Debian?
Because Debian registers that export with the US government and used to inform the government of every package until the government asked us to stop. US developers would otherwise have to do the same thing to export software with cryptographic code, at least in theory, to satisfy the law. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87a9p54plj....@windlord.stanford.edu
