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Re: Integrating BIND 8.2


On Tue, Mar 30, 1999 at 04:54:03PM -0500, Zack Weinberg wrote:

> - Ignore the obnoxious license, distribute the RSAREF subset with the main
> body of libc.  Hope that ISC is right when it says it's legal to export.
> 
> - Ignore RSA's patent, which expires next year anyway, and put a free clone
> into the crypt add-on.  Hope RSA doesn't sue the FSF.
> 
> - Put RSAREF, or a subset, into the crypt add-on.  Hope this doesn't make
> libcrypt *binaries* illegal to export from the US, screwing two of the three
> major distributions.  Also, is RSAREF available outside the US?

At least with PGP the RSAREF version is only available for use in the US
and outside of the US Phil Zimmermann's own code has to be used.  Which
performs better anyway.  Even better - PGP has already been legaly exported.

  Ralf


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