Quoting Colin Watson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Glen S Mehn) wrote: [...] > > ... Ssh uses cryptography that you > >technically have to license in the US to use, so it's a "non-US" > >package. > > With the slink version that's true, but that really makes it non-free > rather than non-US. potato now has OpenSSH, which doesn't suffer from > this problem. > > The non-US problem is that US law prohibits software containing strong > encryption from being exported from the United States; it therefore has > to be placed on a mirror outside the United States for people to > download. (Importing it into the US is OK.)
If ssh were non-free, and I were to download it from a site in the US, then I would've broken the law, wouldn't I? Whereas, because it's non-US, I can't find it on any US site, so I can't accidently break the law. Right? Does OpenSSH not suffer from this problem as well? Does it contain strong encryption or not? Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me, and do not signify official stationery. Views expressed here are either my own or plagiarised.
