Radovan Garabik wrote: > AFAIK France has lifted the restriction two years ago (or so) That's good to hear. > > all conditions and there are countries for which exports from the US are > > still > > restricted (Iran, Irak, .....). We would have to deal with these special > > situations, but I think it is time to change. At the moment, the default > > installation does not include any cryptographic code, which I consider to be > > very weak. In my opinion, every installation of Debian should include at > > least > > ssh instead of telnetd and every server daemon (pop3, imap, smtp, ftp, http, > > ....) should include SSL support by default. Even when doing that it will > take > > some time for all the clients to get upgraded to use the crypto services, > > but it > > is definitely a step in the right direction. > > I agree. Nice to hear that I am not alone :-) How do others think about this ? Should Debian integrate non-US into main if (and that if will have to be clarified) the laws and licenses now allow it ?
> But, isn't the US allowing the export just a trial, and not definitive yet? I thought the laws have changed now, but I may be wrong. Does anybody know this for sure ? best greets, Rene