Simon Josefsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Supporting this meta-GSS-library approach has been the goal of my GSS > library, but I've noticed that there is another library with a similar > goal that is in the Debian NEW queue, libgssapi from > <http://www.citi.umich.edu/projects/nfsv4/linux/>.
> I haven't looked at it in detail though, so I'm not sure it actually > implements this the way I thought it would. Yeah, this was packaged by the NFSv4 folks. I'm not sure if it would work or not, but if it does, it's probably going to get fairly general acceptance. Working with them to make it work may be the path of least resistance to get everyone to rebuild their packages. As the maintainer of a few packages that use GSS-API, I'm interested, and it would also make maintaining Cyrus SASL significantly easier. > There is also a license issue, the libgssapi stuff seem to require > export permissions from the USG to be exported from to U.S., and I'm not > sure if that permissions is granted for exports anywhere, which I would > have a problem with. If that is the case, I'd prefer to improve my GSS > library to make it implement this approach. The export restrictions apply to any code that contains cryptographic code, including the software that you yourself have written if it's brought into the US and then exported again. In other words, this isn't a property of the license on the package, but rather a property of US law that those of us in the US have to deal with and that applies to all packages equally. Thankfully, due largely to the legal work of Dan Bernstein, the US government has a blanket exception for all free software that they wrote into the rules when in imminent danger of losing a Supreme Court free speech decision. So as long as the software is released with source, it's generally not an issue. Debian takes care of all registration requirements for US government export regulations internally, so one doesn't have to worry about this for Debian packages. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> _______________________________________________ Help-shishi mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-shishi
