Subject: Re: export controls
To: None <tech-security@netbsd.org>
From: Michael C. Richardson <mcr@sandelman.ottawa.on.ca>
List: tech-security
Date: 06/23/1999 13:35:45
>>>>> "Thor" == Thor Lancelot Simon <tls@rek.tjls.com> writes:
>> My feeling is that we import all of KAME into cryptosrc-intl, get it
>> working, and then move stuff into syssrc as appropriate.
Thor> No! This is _not_ the way things are done in the NetBSD project.
Thor> Please remember that though cryptosrc-intl is not part of the
Thor> "main" NetBSD repository that lives on cvs.netbsd.org, it is still
Thor> part of the Project's source tree.
Understood.
Thor> The whole *point* of itojun's work is to avoid this kind of
Thor> duplication and lunacy. We're not Linux, after all. We do not
Thor> have six copies of bash, three of Emacs, two versions of ls, and a
Thor> sodomized penguin in our source tree.
Agreed. I am *not* suggesting that we have two copies, but rather that
we err on the side of putting stuff into cryptosrc-intl rather than into
syssrc.
Thor> cryptosrc-intl himself, and that we here in the U.S. would import
Thor> into cryptosrc-us as necessary. Please recall, itojun-san is not
Thor> in the U.S. himself...
Nor am I.
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