Subject: Re: A proposal to mitigate the restriction on crypto binary packages
To: Hubert Feyrer <hubert.feyrer@informatik.fh-regensburg.de>
From: Frederick Bruckman <fb@enteract.com>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 09/08/2000 09:19:59
On Fri, 8 Sep 2000, Hubert Feyrer wrote:

> On Thu, 7 Sep 2000, Frederick Bruckman wrote:
> <proposal>
> 
> I'm not happy we make this change that late, but I guess it'ss more or
> less needed for the release. 

Better now than on the 20th, when the RSA patent was due to expire.

> <openssl>
> > + CRYPTO=			# defined
> 
> Please add an explicit "yes", it's easier to read.

OK. I was trying to match the "style" of openssl/Makefile. Otherwise,
I prefer explicit "yes" myself. I should probably also set
USE_RSAREF2?=yes, and get rid of the warning for when it's not set.
Other than that, the rsaref stuff can be garbage collected after the
release tag.

> What other pkgs are affected?

fredb@handy-> grep -l
"^RESTRICTED=.*[Cr]rypto" /usr/pkgsrc/*/*/Makefile
/usr/pkgsrc/mail/fetchmail/Makefile
/usr/pkgsrc/net/speakfreely/Makefile
/usr/pkgsrc/security/crack/Makefile
/usr/pkgsrc/security/gnupg/Makefile
/usr/pkgsrc/security/isakmpd/Makefile
/usr/pkgsrc/security/kth-krb4/Makefile
/usr/pkgsrc/security/openssh/Makefile
/usr/pkgsrc/security/pgp2/Makefile
/usr/pkgsrc/security/pgp5/Makefile
/usr/pkgsrc/security/py-crypto/Makefile
/usr/pkgsrc/security/racoon/Makefile
/usr/pkgsrc/security/rc5des/Makefile
/usr/pkgsrc/security/rsaref/Makefile
/usr/pkgsrc/security/srp_client/Makefile
/usr/pkgsrc/security/ssh/Makefile
/usr/pkgsrc/security/ssh6/Makefile
/usr/pkgsrc/www/libwww/Makefile
/usr/pkgsrc/www/lynx-current/Makefile
/usr/pkgsrc/www/lynx/Makefile