Subject: Re: pkg/5136: rsaref-2.0 package
To: None <tsarna@endicor.com>
From: Todd Vierling <tv@NetBSD.ORG>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 03/08/1998 21:23:42
On Sun, 8 Mar 1998 tsarna@endicor.com wrote:
: Needed for PGP package.
There's already a rsaref and pgp2 pkg submission in progress; see my PR's
#5007 (rsaref) and #5011 (pgp2). Additionally, see PR #5008 (ssh with
proper RSA patent conformance). I'm going to import them as soon as I see
that the new ELF/a.out library changes in -current's <bsd.lib.mk> work
properly; it was that difference that made me hesitate importing them
earlier. I'll do my best to redo the pkgs to work both under 1.3 and
-current.
: Get the FreeBSD ports-current rsaref package from
: ftp://ftp.endicor.com/pub/netbsd/rsaref.tar.gz
: (basicly the FreeBSD package plus $NetBSD$ rcsids)
: and put it in pkgsrc/security and pkgsrc/security/Makefile.
NO. FreeBSD's rsaref pkg fetches the rsaref sources illegally, according to
RSA's patent-protected license restrictions in the USA. See PR #5007 for a
patent-conforming method of retrieving the sources.
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-- Todd Vierling (Personal tv@pobox.com; Bus. todd_vierling@xn.xerox.com)