RSA & IDEA

[Juergen A. Erhard]

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>>>>> "Rat" == Stainless Steel Rat <ratinox at peorth.gweep.net> writes:

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    Rat> "JAE" == Juergen A Erhard <jae at ilk.de> writes:

    JAE> In theory, the following patch would make installation of RSA and IDEA
    JAE> simpler.

    Rat> There is a big problem with this: it specifically caters to proprietary
    Rat> software, which is a big no-no as far as the FSF is concerned.

I regard idea.c and rsa.c as free... there's a recurring discussion on
debian-devel whether stuff in `non-us' (cannot be distributed from a
server located in the US) is a part of Debian (should be in `main') or
not.

For me, apparently, anything that satisfies the DFSG is free,
regardless whether the piece of code falls under ITAR/Wassenaar or
not.  (If it weren't free in that sense, Werner probably wouldn't put
it on the gpg ftp server...)

If everybody'd follow your reasoning, there would, for example, be no
PGP in any free software.  (Or no GIF plug-in for GIMP... oops, there
are no GIFs on www.gnu.org, so you're probably right about
RMS^H^H^Hthe FSF's stance).

Anyway,

Bye, J

PS: Lest anyone think me a software `hoarder': I agree with RMS in
almost all points regarding free software philosophy... so some
BSD-heads will probably like to lynch me now ;-)

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