Possible legal problems...

[Igor Pechtchanski]

On Sun, 22 Feb 2004, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote:

> On Sun, Feb 22, 2004 at 06:38:11PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> > On Sun, Feb 22, 2004 at 05:53:47PM -0500, Nicholas Wourms wrote:
> > >By his standard, RedHat has been breaking the law for years now, which
> > >leads me to conclude that either:
> > >A)The authorities don't care.
> > >B)Red Hat doesn't care.
> > >or
> > >C)RedHat already has filed the necessary paperwork to allow it to
> > >distribute binaries with strong encryption.
> >
> > Hmm.  I guess I haven't been as diligent as I should have been.  I've
> > pulled gnupg from the distribution.
>
> Should there be some generic announcement about this issue?
> The pertinent USA government website seems to be
> <http://www.bxa.doc.gov/encryption/>

We might also want to be proactive and add a "What happened to 'gpg'?" FAQ
entry...
	Igor
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