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. -- Arun Khan At 01:54 PM 08/13/98 +0200, Lenz Grimmer wrote:
Hi,
On Thu, 13 Aug 1998 Ted.Harding@nessie.mcc.ac.uk wrote:
Cryptography restrictions.
1. By whom? I was not aware that PGP, for instance, was subject to the US RSA-type restrictions. So who is imposing this?
2. Does this mean, for instance, that the German edition will not be
available
at all in "English" countries? Otherwise, what is to stop people who want PGP etc from getting the German edition (as well as, if not instead of, the English one)?
As it stands, this looks bizarre. No doubt, Lenz, there *are* good reasons; we puzzled S.u.S.E. fans would, however, welcome a fuller explanation of what they are.
OK, please excuse my first message, which was indeed a bit short :) I was in a hurry...
Bodo or Hubert, please correct me, if I am wrong in the following points, I am no expert in these things.
The funny thing is, that the US export restrictions on cryprography force us to leave out these packages out of the english version. This is due to the fact, that all non-European orders are handled by our american division, which would otherwise be unable to reexport the package, even if they imported it from Germany. You can still download these packages from a non-US ftp-Server. I hope, that this is understandable, my English seems to be kind of weird today ;-)
I agree, that this sounds bizarre. I too was puzzled, the first time I heard about this.
Best regards,
LenZ
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