On Sun, Oct 15, 2000 at 01:16:34AM -0400 or thereabouts, E. Jay Berkenbilt wrote: > > [I'm not currently subscribed to this list, so please cc me on responses.] > > After about September 20, the RSA patent has expired in the USA. > Also, earlier this year, the USA finally relaxed its export laws > concerning encryption software. (There are still some places where > you can't export encryption, but it's not nearly as bad as it once > was.) > > With this change, there have been a number of positive developments in > the open-source world. For example, gnupg 1.0.3 now supports RSA. > Also, RedHat 7.0 includes stunnel, openssl, openssh, apache's mod_ssl, > an ssl-aware smbclient, and perhaps other software that uses the RSA > algorithm, and since 6.2, Kerberos, gnupg, and the 128-bit version of > Netscape have been included. > > As far as I can tell, Debian has not moved any of these things out of > non-free/non-US even for the unstable distribution. Are there plans > to do this? If not, why not? I'd be grateful if someone could shed > some light on this issue. > > For what it's worth, I'm brand new to Debian (just trying it this > weekend for the first time) but I've been using Linux since 1992 and > UNIX in general since 1987, so I apologize if this has been discussed > already.... I did search the October archives of this list before > posting... > > Thanks > > -- > E. Jay Berkenbilt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) | http://www.ql.org/q/ >
There's now an ongoing vote among developers on what to do with non-free/non-US software thus affecting the Social Contract. Check the social contract after this month. -- Who's watching the watchmen? ICQ: 15096825
