Urgent: Mirroring of encryption software in the USA

2000-08-02 Thread Rene Mayrhofer
Hi all I have another question on the Gibraltar firewall distribution. It is put together in Austria, but I already have a mirror site from which I do not know if it is inside the USA. What is the legal situation at the moment ? Is it possible to "export" software from the USA by download it from

Re: Urgent: Mirroring of encryption software in the USA

2000-08-02 Thread Rene Mayrhofer
Joseph Carter wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 02, 2000 at 07:21:57PM +0200, Jens Müller wrote: > > No, that's illegal according to US export regulations (I think with > > "software" you mean such software as covered by those regulations) > > Not so. > > Crypto software can now legally be exported provide

Re: Gibraltar

2000-08-02 Thread Rene Mayrhofer
Mark Rafn wrote: > > On Wed, 2 Aug 2000, Rene Mayrhofer wrote: > > > What I would like to have is some sort of protection for the ISO image > > itself. > > Umm. Why? If you allow redistribution (which you must, because YOU are > distributing based on permissio

Re: Gibraltar

2000-08-02 Thread Rene Mayrhofer
Jens Müller wrote: > > > Another example is Debian itself: There are some restrictions on what > can be > > > done with "official" and "non-official" ISO images (I think only the > logo > > > matters, but the principle is the same). I want something in that > direction. > > > > You can use similar

Re: Gibraltar

2000-08-02 Thread Rene Mayrhofer
Mark Rafn wrote: > > On Wed, 2 Aug 2000, Rene Mayrhofer wrote: > > > That is exactly what I mean: if somebody sells his knowledge, his time > > by selling support then he does not directly make profit with the ISO > > images that are distributed freely. He/she makes hi

Re: Gibraltar

2000-08-02 Thread Rene Mayrhofer
Adam Heath wrote: > > On Tue, 1 Aug 2000, Rene Mayrhofer wrote: > > > Adam Heath wrote: > > > > > > Please see the comments on freshmeat.net about this. You are illegally > > > distribution Debian. The GPL does not allow to you be more restrictive. &g

Redistribution of JSSE in a java package

2002-05-15 Thread Rene Mayrhofer
Hi all, For a Java client that is to be uploaded soon (fireflier, announced in the last week on debian-devel), the Sun JSSE libraries are needed. According to the license that comes with JSSE (attached to this mail), redistribution seems to be allowed. I intend to distribute the JSSE jar libr

Re: Redistribution of JSSE in a java package

2002-05-15 Thread Rene Mayrhofer
Stephen Stafford wrote: Henning Makholm has expressed some concerns in another mail which are valid. History shows that Sun might be willing to grant an exception to alleviate some of them though (see the exceptions given to blackdown.org for J2SE, which is pretty much the same license AFAICT).

License issue with freeswan (Eric Young's libdes)

2002-09-11 Thread Rene Mayrhofer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, The reason why freeswan can currently not go into main is an issue with some code license that is bundled with it. I am struggling with this for quite some time now and at the moment I need some help to clarify it Freeswan (the user spa

Re: License issue with freeswan (Eric Young's libdes)

2002-09-11 Thread Rene Mayrhofer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Steve Langasek wrote: | Which parts of freeswan link against libdes? According to | /usr/share/doc/freeswan/copyright, some parts are LGPL. Do we know for | sure that libdes+GPL is happening? No, not for sure. However, since the copyright situation

Abacus Portsentry License

1999-05-16 Thread Rene Mayrhofer
#x27;m not that strict, I just want to avoid unauthorized modifications and people selling the tools directly. Thanks in advance Rene -- -- Rene Mayrhofer, ViaNova KEG NIC-HDL: RM1677-RIPE Email: [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: Abacus Portsentry License

1999-05-16 Thread Rene Mayrhofer
> > This will have to go to non-free. Thank you for the quick answer. I will put it in non-free/net. Rene -- -- Rene Mayrhofer, ViaNova KEG NIC-HDL: RM1677-RIPE Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

pptp, ppp with Microsoft encryption

1999-09-30 Thread Rene Mayrhofer
Hi I am packaging the pptpd daemon and modified versions of the ppp package that include support for the Microsoft authentication and encryption. PPTP is a protocol for building VPNs between a PPTP server/firewall and PPTP clients (Win95, Win98, WinNT, Win2000, Linux, MacOS, ..). The clients get a

Re: Gibraltar

2000-08-02 Thread Rene Mayrhofer
Adam Heath wrote: > > On Tue, 1 Aug 2000, Rene Mayrhofer wrote: > > > Adam Heath wrote: > > > > > > Please see the comments on freshmeat.net about this. You are illegally > > > distribution Debian. The GPL does not allow to you be more restrictive. &g

Urgent: Mirroring of encryption software in the USA

2000-08-02 Thread Rene Mayrhofer
Hi all I have another question on the Gibraltar firewall distribution. It is put together in Austria, but I already have a mirror site from which I do not know if it is inside the USA. What is the legal situation at the moment ? Is it possible to "export" software from the USA by download it from

Re: Urgent: Mirroring of encryption software in the USA

2000-08-02 Thread Rene Mayrhofer
Joseph Carter wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 02, 2000 at 07:21:57PM +0200, Jens Müller wrote: > > No, that's illegal according to US export regulations (I think with > > "software" you mean such software as covered by those regulations) > > Not so. > > Crypto software can now legally be exported provid

Re: Gibraltar

2000-08-02 Thread Rene Mayrhofer
Mark Rafn wrote: > > On Wed, 2 Aug 2000, Rene Mayrhofer wrote: > > > What I would like to have is some sort of protection for the ISO image > > itself. > > Umm. Why? If you allow redistribution (which you must, because YOU are > distributing based on permissio

Re: Gibraltar

2000-08-02 Thread Rene Mayrhofer
Jens Müller wrote: > > > Another example is Debian itself: There are some restrictions on what > can be > > > done with "official" and "non-official" ISO images (I think only the > logo > > > matters, but the principle is the same). I want something in that > direction. > > > > You can use similar

Re: Gibraltar

2000-08-02 Thread Rene Mayrhofer
Mark Rafn wrote: > > On Wed, 2 Aug 2000, Rene Mayrhofer wrote: > > > That is exactly what I mean: if somebody sells his knowledge, his time > > by selling support then he does not directly make profit with the ISO > > images that are distributed freely. He/s