Re: restructuring mod_ssl as an overlay

2006-06-08 Thread TOKILEY
> Roy wrote... > > The sane solution would be to convince the US government to remove> encryption from the export control list, since that regulation has> been totally ineffective.  That is not likely to happen during this> administration, though, and I don't think the ASF is allowed to> lobby f

Re: restructuring mod_ssl as an overlay

2006-06-08 Thread Jim Jagielski
Roy T. Fielding wrote: > > ... The big deal is that 5D002 > classification also means that it is illegal for the ASF to knowingly > allow anyone residing in, or a citizen of, the T-8 countries, or anyone > on the "denied persons list", to even participate in our project, > let alone download packa

Re: restructuring mod_ssl as an overlay

2006-06-08 Thread Roy T. Fielding
On Jun 8, 2006, at 3:38 PM, Colm MacCarthaigh wrote: Another option is that we could ask the ASF to formally consider upping roots and changing jurisdiction. I have little doubt over what the answer would be, but I'd prefer that we exhaust all of the alternative options before doing anything w

Re: restructuring mod_ssl as an overlay

2006-06-08 Thread Justin Erenkrantz
On 6/8/06, Colm MacCarthaigh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Another option is that we could ask the ASF to formally consider upping roots and changing jurisdiction. I have little doubt over what the answer would be, but I'd prefer that we exhaust all of the alternative options before doing anything w

Re: restructuring mod_ssl as an overlay

2006-06-08 Thread Colm MacCarthaigh
On Thu, Jun 08, 2006 at 02:47:59PM -0700, Roy T. Fielding wrote: > If anyone can think of another option, I'd like to hear it before > proposing a vote. Another option is that we could ask the ASF to formally consider upping roots and changing jurisdiction. I have little doubt over what the answe

Re: restructuring mod_ssl as an overlay

2006-06-08 Thread Ruediger Pluem
On 06/08/2006 11:47 PM, Roy T. Fielding wrote: > Sorry, I did a poor job of explaining -- the binaries issue is about > openssl. The openssl issue is what required me to read the EAR No reason to say sorry. Thanks for your work on this issue. > The mere presence of mod_ssl source code appears

Re: restructuring mod_ssl as an overlay

2006-06-08 Thread Roy T. Fielding
Sorry, I did a poor job of explaining -- the binaries issue is about openssl. The openssl issue is what required me to read the EAR guidelines, but my response is based on what I learned about the EAR in general. The mere presence of mod_ssl source code appears to be sufficient to make the produ

Re: AW: restructuring mod_ssl as an overlay

2006-06-08 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
^^^ see subject ^^^ There are quite a few reasonable alternative strategies for dealing with that kind of scenario. Does the ASF have such a policy as a matter of course, regardless of the severity of such an action? really sort of off topic; yes the mechanisms to handle this have existed sin

Re: AW: restructuring mod_ssl as an overlay

2006-06-08 Thread Ruediger Pluem
On 06/08/2006 07:13 PM, William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote: > > I will say this; the people who are wildly waving their arms "no more > binaries" are the same people who, surprise, haven't contributed binaries > to httpd, at least not lately (little surprise). This is true, but I do not think that peo

Re: AW: restructuring mod_ssl as an overlay

2006-06-08 Thread Colm MacCarthaigh
On Thu, Jun 08, 2006 at 11:07:51AM -0700, Justin Erenkrantz wrote: > On 6/8/06, Colm MacCarthaigh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >There are quite a few reasonable alternative strategies for dealing with > >that kind of scenario. Does the ASF have such a policy as a matter of > >course, regardless of

Re: restructuring mod_ssl as an overlay

2006-06-08 Thread Justin Erenkrantz
On 6/8/06, Joe Orton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Thanks for doing the research, Roy. Ditto. On Wed, Jun 07, 2006 at 02:03:33PM -0700, Roy T. Fielding wrote: > Okay, let me put it in a different way. The alternatives are > > 1) retain the status quo, forbid distributing ssl binaries, and > in

Re: AW: restructuring mod_ssl as an overlay

2006-06-08 Thread Justin Erenkrantz
On 6/8/06, Colm MacCarthaigh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: There are quite a few reasonable alternative strategies for dealing with that kind of scenario. Does the ASF have such a policy as a matter of course, regardless of the severity of such an action? As that hasn't happened yet, there is no s

Re: AW: restructuring mod_ssl as an overlay

2006-06-08 Thread Colm MacCarthaigh
On Thu, Jun 08, 2006 at 12:16:02PM -0500, William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote: > Colm MacCarthaigh wrote: > > > >Suffice it to say that even a cursory glance at a patents register > >would likely reveal many ludicrous patents which httpd may infringe. > > Yup; if the claimant to any such -legitimate- paten

Re: [PATCH] mod_speling

2006-06-08 Thread Wilfredo Sánchez Vega
This looks fine, but can you add a patch to the docs? The feature isn't useful if nobody knows it's there. Thanks, -wsv On May 30, 2006, at 4:30 PM, olivier Thereaux wrote: Hello, This is a followup to a (very) old thread about mod_speling on the httpd-dev list: http:/

Re: AW: restructuring mod_ssl as an overlay

2006-06-08 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
Colm MacCarthaigh wrote: Suffice it to say that even a cursory glance at a patents register would likely reveal many ludicrous patents which httpd may infringe. Yup; if the claimant to any such -legitimate- patent comes knocking, it *will* be removed from svn and the project, in case you had a

Re: AW: restructuring mod_ssl as an overlay

2006-06-08 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
Jeff Trawick wrote: Just curious: does anybody in that boat actually think that anything we httpd-ers could do with packaging httpd (binaries, SSL,etc.) would conceivably compete with what our employers are providing? (I find that preposterous personally) rofl - no. I will say this; the peop

Re: AW: restructuring mod_ssl as an overlay

2006-06-08 Thread Colm MacCarthaigh
On Thu, Jun 08, 2006 at 12:01:16PM -0500, William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote: > Colm MacCarthaigh wrote: > >What's next, do we start stripping patented methods from our tarball > >and making that available too? > > Uhm which patent *encumbered* methods? If I were to identify any or perform a patent

Re: AW: restructuring mod_ssl as an overlay

2006-06-08 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
Colm MacCarthaigh wrote: What's next, do we start stripping patented methods from our tarball and making that available too? Uhm which patent *encumbered* methods?

Re: AW: restructuring mod_ssl as an overlay

2006-06-08 Thread Jeff Trawick
On 6/8/06, William A. Rowe, Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Plüm wrote: > >>Von: Joe Orton >>I don't see why it's necessary for the ASF to be in >>the business of distributing binaries; letting other people assume the >>technical and legal responsibilites for doing that seems reasonable. Ahhh, th

Re: httpd-win.conf broken on trunk

2006-06-08 Thread Garrett Rooney
On 6/1/06, William A. Rowe, Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Garrett Rooney wrote: > > One thing that seems odd, it looks like Makefile.win is still copying > docs/conf/httpd-win.conf to conf/httpd.conf.default, isn't the goal of > the previous changes to get a massaged version of httpd-std.conf.in

Re: AW: restructuring mod_ssl as an overlay

2006-06-08 Thread Plüm , Rüdiger , VF EITO
> -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 p

Re: AW: restructuring mod_ssl as an overlay

2006-06-08 Thread 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 violatio

Re: AW: restructuring mod_ssl as an overlay

2006-06-08 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
Joe Orton wrote: If you think there is some group of users who want to be able to download the "crypto"-enabled httpd tarballs in $BANNEDCOUNTRY but refuse to do so because they don't want to violate US export regulations, then maybe that should be addressed separately. The group of peopl

Re: AW: restructuring mod_ssl as an overlay

2006-06-08 Thread Joe Orton
On Thu, Jun 08, 2006 at 07:00:29AM -0500, William Rowe wrote: > Plüm wrote: > >>Von: Joe Orton > >>On Wed, Jun 07, 2006 at 02:03:33PM -0700, Roy T. Fielding wrote: > >>>Okay, let me put it in a different way. The alternatives are > >>> > >>>1) retain the status quo, forbid distributing ssl binarie

Re: restructuring mod_ssl as an overlay

2006-06-08 Thread Jim Jagielski
On Jun 7, 2006, at 4:03 PM, Roy T. Fielding wrote: Given those constraints, I would prefer to separate the httpd releases into a non-crypto package and a crypto overlay, similar to what most of the packaging redistributors do (fink, apt, etc.). Is the concern that we bundle mod_ssl with htt

Re: AW: restructuring mod_ssl as an overlay

2006-06-08 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
Plüm wrote: Von: Joe Orton On Wed, Jun 07, 2006 at 02:03:33PM -0700, Roy T. Fielding wrote: Okay, let me put it in a different way. The alternatives are 1) retain the status quo, forbid distributing ssl binaries, and include in our documentation that people in banned countries ar

Re: restructuring mod_ssl as an overlay

2006-06-08 Thread Mads Toftum
On Thu, Jun 08, 2006 at 11:01:12AM +0100, Joe Orton wrote: > On Wed, Jun 07, 2006 at 02:03:33PM -0700, Roy T. Fielding wrote: > > Okay, let me put it in a different way. The alternatives are > > > > 1) retain the status quo, forbid distributing ssl binaries, and > > include in our documentation

AW: restructuring mod_ssl as an overlay

2006-06-08 Thread Plüm , Rüdiger , VF EITO
> -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- > Von: Joe Orton [ > > Thanks for doing the research, Roy. Yep, thanks from me too. > > On Wed, Jun 07, 2006 at 02:03:33PM -0700, Roy T. Fielding wrote: > > Okay, let me put it in a different way. The alternatives are > > > > 1) retain the status quo, fo

Re: restructuring mod_ssl as an overlay

2006-06-08 Thread Joe Orton
Thanks for doing the research, Roy. On Wed, Jun 07, 2006 at 02:03:33PM -0700, Roy T. Fielding wrote: > Okay, let me put it in a different way. The alternatives are > > 1) retain the status quo, forbid distributing ssl binaries, and > include in our documentation that people in banned countries