Re: USA crypto rules and libssl-dependent packages

2001-05-12 Thread Jimmy Kaplowitz
On Sat, May 12, 2001 at 10:10:30PM -0400, Brian Ristuccia wrote: > > Choice 3 is best. People who live in countries where the use of cryptography > is restricted are probably subject to being arbitrarily jailed or murdered > by their state's government anyway. Going out of your way to provide > cr

Re: USA crypto rules and libssl-dependent packages

2001-05-12 Thread Brian Ristuccia
On Sat, May 12, 2001 at 09:52:48PM -0400, Jimmy Kaplowitz wrote: > Thank you all very much for replying. I am torn between three avenues that I > am > considering taking. > > Choice 3: Just change the main althea package to include ssl support, and add > to the package description and README.Debi

Re: USA crypto rules and libssl-dependent packages

2001-05-12 Thread Jimmy Kaplowitz
Thank you all very much for replying. I am torn between three avenues that I am considering taking. Choice 1: Keep althea in main and make a completely separate althea-ssl package in non-US. This would allow me to provide a source package for althea that has no Build-Dependency on libssl-dev, whic

Re: request

2001-05-12 Thread Brian Wolfe
I'm not really part of debian, but I think that we have prior art fo the fact that mailing lists that are public are commonly archived and stored online for searching. As for the guy thats being anal retentive about his emails, you KNEW it was being archived online before you p

Re: request

2001-05-12 Thread Wolfgang Sourdeau
Then. Just send an email to all of the Debian archives, asking people who wants their mail to be removed to tell it. And on the subscription page and with any information related to subscription, warn the subscriber that everything is archived and that by subscribing, he agrees to give Debian the r

Re: lame (again!)

2001-05-12 Thread Joseph Carter
On Sat, May 12, 2001 at 05:58:18PM +0100, Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS wrote: > (It's bug 97198.) > > Please could someone explain why it is "bad" if Debian includes an MP3 > encoder. Potential legal problems. I say potential because lawyers have made a big deal out of it and have clearly tried to overs

Re: request

2001-05-12 Thread Sergio Brandano
> Can you cite anything in the Berne convention or related treaties? > -- Jürgen A. Erhard - By [1](article 15, point 1), in order that the author of a protected work shall be regarded as such, it is sufficient for his name to appear on the work in the usual manner. - By [1](article 2,

Re: lame (again!)

2001-05-12 Thread Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS
James Troup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Lame is already included in the Debian archives in libmp3lame_audioenc.so.0 > > in libavifile in debian/main. It's in shared library form, but appears to be > > a fully functional mpeg-1 layer 3 encoder and not just a wrapper that > > invokes a lame binary the

Re: USA crypto rules and libssl-dependent packages

2001-05-12 Thread Branden Robinson
On Fri, May 11, 2001 at 10:01:25PM -0400, Jimmy Kaplowitz wrote: > What if they are living in France, where private use of cryptography is > illegal? IIRC, that is no longer the case. Perhaps someone from France could confirm this. -- G. Branden Robinson |Damnit, we're all going