I heard from SuSE that the problem with the US is, that there are several distibutors which distribute world-wide; that is not only SuSE/US sends package to customes, but also other companies do. In Germany, I think (almost) only SuSE sends this packages to customes, other companies only sell it in their shops. Since the re-export laws now allow more, we may see a SuSE-"US" version which includes full crypto support. With kind regards from Berlin,
Tobias
This is correct.
As you might expect, publishing two seperate distributions every time
is costly.
As Kurt Seifried pointed out already, we need to make sure that the legal
issues are bullet-proof. Our legal professionals are working on a
solution, but most of you might know some of the properties of the US
legal system. See http://www.suse.de/~draht/usa.jpg (sorry, this is
German) and smile.
Btw, talking crypto: The netscape packages will show up later today in the
German SuSE ftp site ftp.suse.de. For bandwidth reasons, we rely on our
mirrors - ftp.gwdg.de will have the updates available soon after. You will
see more precise paths/URLs in the advisory. I just hope that the mirrors
get sync fast enough, otherwise we're on delay.
Thanks,
Roman.
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