On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 04:48:52PM -0600, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 4:13 PM, Patrice Dumas <pertusus@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hello, > > > > Recently the issue of crypto and crypto export in fedora/EPEL was raised > > about beecrypt. This is something that has never been discussed as far > > as I remember. It should of course be checked with legal. > > > > My question is, does crypto software need a specific treatement in > > fedora? (And if yes, what is a crypto software?) > > > > As far as I know crypto has always needed special treatment in Fedora. > Most encryption software is considered 'controlled' for export by > several nations (I think United States, France, Russia, China, etc). > What Red Hat has to do is fill out paperwork with the United States > Commerce department whenever new software with encryption is added to > Fedora or RHEL. Then we have to register crypto packages somewhere such that the people in charge can do the paperwork, isn't it? Don't we need a guideline here? -- Pat -- Fedora-packaging mailing list Fedora-packaging@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-packaging
