[hpa at transmeta.com: kernel.org cryptographic policy change scheduled for 2000-02-14 22:00 UTC]

[Florian Lohoff]

Hi,
zur info - Kerneli.org und kernel.org werden verschmelzen ...


Flo
----- Forwarded message from "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa at transmeta.com> -----
Message-ID: <3890B446.2CC4023 at transmeta.com>
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2000 13:10:30 -0800
From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa at transmeta.com>
Reply-To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa at zytor.com>
Organization: Transmeta Corporation
To: users at kernel.org, mirrors at kernel.org, lkams-contacts at kernel.org
Subject: kernel.org cryptographic policy change scheduled for 2000-02-14 22:00 
 UTC

Dear friends,

After extensive consultations with our legal counsel, we believe that we
have found a reasonable method of supporting cryptography on
kernel.org.  Consequently, the following change in kernel.org policy
will take effect Monday Feb 14, 2000 at 22:00 UTC (14:00 PST, 17:00 EST,
23:00 MET) *UNLESS OTHERWISE IS INDICATED BEFORE THEN* (in case the
situation changes.)

a) Cryptographic Open Source software will be permitted on kernel.org. 
For binaries, *the source must be available on kernel.org*.  This will
need to be strictly enforced, so contributors, please stick to this
rule.

b) We can no longer support official mirrors in the following countries,
or allow other official mirrors to be listed as supporting them:
Afghanistan, Cuba, Iran, Iraq, Libya, North Korea, Sudan, Syria or
Yugoslavia.  (The situation with Yugoslavia is a bit tricky, since the
regs only apply to Serbia, specifically.  If we end up having someone
wanting to set up a Montenegrine mirror, we'll deal with it then.)

c) The following legal notice will apply to all users of kernel.org:

      "Some of the software available on this site contains encryption
      software, and is subject to export controls and prohibitions
      under the U.S. Export Control Regulations.  Anyone requesting or
      receiving such software agrees to comply with the U.S. Export
      Control Regulations and also acknowledges that the software
      cannot be exported without a license or other authorization from
      the United States Government and that the software is not
      intended for use by a non-U.S. government end-user."


Obviously, this is all pretty silly, but that's really the best we can
do.  This is government stupidity we're dealing with.  I would like to
especially apologize to our one Yugoslavian mirror for having to cut you
off.  I really tried to find a way around it.


If you have any issues with this policy change, please contact me
privately.

Sincerely,

	H. Peter Anvin


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