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Re: Non-US Mirror System
On Mon, 23 Feb 2004, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> [snip]
> I am not a lawyer but I do have twenty+ years worth of talking to
> lawyers and dealing with issues like this. While I would never
> arbitrarily decide that an iffy package could legally be included, it is
> clearly in Red Hat's best interest to err on the side of caution and
> remove gnupg from the distro especially now that the issue was publicly
> discussed on a mailing list.
>
> cgf
FWIW, I agree with CGF's decision and the above reasoning, and did read
his initial e-mail announcing that he's pulling gnupg (and ccrypt) as a
temporary pull pending legal counsel, not as a permanent block (all my
reply jokes nonwithstanding). The suggestion of distributing the sources
and compiling during postinstall (implied by me but actually voiced by
Jörg) was a temporary measure until the binary distribution questions
could be resolved.
I don't want to add oil to the fire or flog a dead horse here, but a lot
of these questions are addressed in the Mozilla Crypto FAQ
(<http://www.mozilla.org/crypto-faq.html>), in addition to the links I
posted in <http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2004-02/msg00251.html>.
Igor
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