Re: Status of non-US

2001-01-09 Thread Andrea Glorioso
> "Rene" == Rene Mayrhofer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Rene> Nice to hear that I am not alone :-) How do others think Rene> about this ? Should Debian integrate non-US into main if Rene> (and that if will have to be clarified) the laws and Rene> licenses now allow it ? *If* th

Re: Status of non-US

2001-01-08 Thread Rene Mayrhofer
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 th

Re: Status of non-US

2001-01-08 Thread Radovan Garabik
On Sun, Jan 07, 2001 at 08:46:21PM +0100, Rene Mayrhofer wrote: > Hi all > > > There is one point to consider with this: In some countries it is not allowed > to > use strong cryptography (France, China and a few others as far as I know) > under AFAIK France has lifted the restriction two year

Status of non-US

2001-01-07 Thread Rene Mayrhofer
Hi all I would just like to know the current status of non-US within Debian. Now, since the US export regulations for cryptographic software have been weakened, we might be able to include cryptographic software in the main distribution, eliminating non-US completely (well maybe not completely