On Wed, Apr 02, 2008 at 12:27:15PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > David Fetter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Just exactly which encryption legislation are we talking about > > here? > > > I know there was some fuss about this issue back in the early > > 1990s, but that was many, many law changes and court cases ago, > > world-wide. It's far from clear to me that there's any reason > > other than inertia not to roll the crypto stuff into the core > > functionality and have done. > > This seems a very USA-centric view of the problem. It's true that > the US export regulations no longer pose much of an issue for us > (but who's to say they might not become tighter again in future?); > the problem is there are lots of places where the laws are still > strict.
Which places, and what laws? Re: compulsively attempting to comply with every law everywhere, let's recall that a certain Search! engine company managed to get itself in a morally pretty reprehensible spot by "following the laws" of an oppressive regime. We needn't do the same. Cheers, David. -- David Fetter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://fetter.org/ Phone: +1 415 235 3778 AIM: dfetter666 Yahoo!: dfetter Skype: davidfetter XMPP: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Remember to vote! Consider donating to Postgres: http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list ([email protected]) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
