On Wed, Mar 29, 2000 at 08:36:40AM +0200, Adi Stav wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 28, 2000 at 09:30:49PM +0300, Gaal Yahas wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > I'm not following lkml. Could anyone who is say why aren't the
> > international and mainstream kernel trees being merged? (Or
> > perhaps they are, but it'll take some time?)
>
> It was suggested, but it was turned down because there are still many
> countries in the world (I think Sweden was the example used) that have
> encryption problems and they didn't want to limit Linux's distribution
> or make mirroring illegal.
Update, from the latest kernel traffic (http://kt.linuxcare.com):
> Lars Marowsky-Bree asked if crypto support would make it into 2.4, or
> would it have to wait until 2.5; H. Peter replied, "I talked with
> Linus about this, and he says he thinks it can get merged into 2.4
> assuming it is reasonably separate, but "probably not for 2.4.0.""
- Adi Stav
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