> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > Von: Colm MacCarthaigh > > > On Thu, Jun 08, 2006 at 08:16:48AM -0500, William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote: > > The group of people who concern me are not those in T-8, > they are those who > > live in jurisdictions where *they* would be breaking local > law by possessing > > crypto. Leave them a) in the backwaters / b) in fear / c) > in violation, or > > give them a silly httpd-2.2.x-no-ssl.tar.gz? The later > seems sane to me. > > The personal liabilites of users are not our concern. That's > strictly a > matter for users and their legal counsel. What's next, do we start
And they would be a target hard to hit. US export controls are one fixed (complex) issue, but trying to deliver packages (whether source or binary) that do not violate laws in (almost) all contries over the world seems undoable to me. Apart from this I do not think that this should be our task. Regards Rüdiger
