Re: [Q] merging mainline kernel

[Michael Richardson <mcr@sandelman.ottawa.on.ca>]

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>>>>> "mk" == mk  <Mitsuru> writes:
    >> Until such time as the mainline kernel resides in a free country,
    >> I would strongly recommend that the crypto code stay out.

    mk> You mean the mainline kernel shuold reside outside of U.S like
    mk> OpenBSD :-) ? 

  Yes.

    mk> I'm not familiar with the limitations on crypto exports of U.S.
  
  I strongly suggest that unless you want to be the Skyleroff, that you
become familliar with them.

  Well, there are the same limitations that there always have been.
The difference is that for the past 3 or 4 years, the bureaucrats have
actually been following the law, which exempts open source software, except
that they ask that you notify them that you are exporting things. 

  The notice is not legal. Most believe it is so they can round you up later
on to threaten you, if there is something that they want you to do.  
  As this is an administrative change, not a legal one, they can change it
back at any time, and can make it retroactively illegal. Note that current
"cybercrime" laws in the US are retroactive as well.

  The "rules" apply to all people in the US (including non-US citizens),
and all US citizens, regardless of where they are in the world.

    mk> but I think at least CryptoAPI scheme existing inside the mainline
    mk> kernel 
    mk> is useful for kernel developers who want to use cryptoapi.
    mk> (e.g. abstraction layer: cryptoapi.c crypto.h)

  useful, yes.
  But, asking the US developers to risk their lives, families and possessions
over?

  Remember that disney owns congresspersons, and I would presume so does
Microsoft. Neither is happy with what Linux does to them.  Having crypto in
a US-maintained Linux kernel would provide trivial ways for Linux people to
threatened and controlled. 

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