--- On Fri, 8/15/08, Kyle Hamilton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Thanks for your comments.
> Well, the question becomes: Which government are you trying to
> work around the restrictions of? OpenSSL is open-source.
In this very specific case: the Canadian gouvernment. The whole
thing does not look good if you ask me. But then, I'm not in a
position (nor have all the time it'd take) to actually go to the
bottom of this. So I have to put some faith (or a proper
substitute of) in what I'm told, notably that there were serious
talks with gov't reps, and that scavengers - er, I meant lawyers
- have given some advice.
Nevertheless the whole thing smells funny. But if products have
to be sold, then they have to 'comply'. Even if the full source
code with full crypto of the exact same package is found on any
Debian server in both source and binary formats... in Canada.
If anyone Canadian have a different, business-practical view on
this regarding OpenSSL, please do comment.
Cheers.
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