Hi,

On Thu, Apr 24, 2003 at 10:00:49PM +0200, Frank Lichtenheld wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 24, 2003 at 02:30:50PM -0400, christophe barbe wrote:
> > On Thu, Apr 24, 2003 at 02:30:35PM +0200, J?r?me Marant wrote:
> > > Yes, it is normal. The reason is crypto-in-main: they have to be
> > > checked by ftp-masters first.
> > 
> > I don't see why they should not be readable by everyone before being
> > checked by ftp-master. I don't said I disapprove that (for what it would
> > worth) but I don't understand the logic. Can someone explain?
> 
> When I read http://www.debian.org/legal/cryptoinmain correct, all
> Software that contains cryptographic functionality must be registered
> before it can legally be distributed. So the ftp-master must check if
> a new package contains cryptographic functionality and if it is
> already registered.

Considering the legislators' feeling for these matters, I'm surprised
nobody's been able to convince these people to allow registration to
happen in write only memory.

Cheers,


Emile.

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