On Tue, Nov 16, 1999 at 09:49:34AM +, Philip Hands wrote:
> > AFAIK there is no "perfect" regime in the world, and the political
> > situation in many countries wrt. crypto (for example) is rather
> > unstable. For example, the LinuxDVD code is probably only illegal in
> > the UK, since the "
On Wed, Nov 03, 1999 at 02:52:41AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
> I'm still undecided as to whether we should have
>
> /usr/share/icons
>
> or
>
> /usr/share/bitmaps
> as well as
> /usr/share/pixmaps
>
> OTOH, the former may well turn out to be fine. Why?
>
> * almost all image files identi
Richard Braakman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Do we really have other packages in there for other reasons than the
> cryptography laws? I couldn't find any. I think calling it "crypto"
> makes a lot of sense. It's a clear label, and people will know how
> to treat those packages in their count
The package in question was curl.
Root of this discussion:
http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-mentors-9908/msg00059.html
the messages supporting my opinion:
http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-mentors-9908/msg00074.html
http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-mentors-9908/m
Chris Lawrence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> AFAIK there is no "perfect" regime in the world, and the political
> situation in many countries wrt. crypto (for example) is rather
> unstable. For example, the LinuxDVD code is probably only illegal in
> the UK, since the "rip" of the encryption algo
On Nov 15, Richard Braakman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>We'll have to find another place for packages that are patent-encumbered
>in weird ways, if any show up.
All packages using LZW (used by the GIF format) or RSA.
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ciao,
Marco
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