Hi, On Thu, 13 Aug 1998, Arun K. Khan wrote:
In my earlier response to Lenz's reply, I missed some of the opinions expressed by others in the list.
My comment about export restrictions is: There are many shrink wrapped software packages from M$, Lotus, IBM etc., sold in the US that are clearly labeled "not for sale outside US/Canada" and/or "not for export outside the US/Canada" when such restrictions apply e.g. Lotus Notes server/client. I think disclaimer absolves the vendor and software author from any legalese and the total responsiblity then lies with the consumer.
IMHO, S.u.S.E could have adopted a similar approach for units sold/distributed from their US company S.u.S.E LLC rather than taking out the packages and depriving the rest of the english speaking world. I realize it may be too late for 5.3 but I hope SuSE would consider this approach in their next release and not differentiate between the German and English distributions.
Yes, of course we could have two English versions. One that may be exported from the USA and one that must not. But as this implies lots of additional work and money we have not yet done so. Of course this is one of the possibilities we consider. But besides all the drawbacks, there are also advantages with the International version: As it is mastered _after_ the german release, it normally has some bugs fixed that are in the German version (every software contains bugs as all of you know). So in the English version of 5.3 two minor bugs regarding YaST and execution of glibc binaries have been fixed.
-- Arun Khan -o) Hubert /\\ _\_v
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