A proposed drastic cleanup of the telnet build.

[Mark Murray]

Marcel Moolenaar writes:
> On Wed, Jun 04, 2003 at 09:42:50PM +0100, Mark Murray wrote:
> > 
> > I propose to 'cvs rm' the 'base' telnet, and build base telnet by
> > not defining the appropriate macros.
> 
> [snip]
> 
> > The downside is that base telnet will depend on src/crypto/telnet,
> > so folks in dodgy countries which don't allow them to have crypto
> > source will not be able to do telnet development, and they will
> > not get a "fresh" telnet[d] after a make world.
> 
> I think it's a good idea. Do you know how many (which?) dodgy countries
> there are on this particular rock we call the earth? I mean, WRT to this
> particular issue of course :-)

The only one that I can think of that makes public domain crypto
illegal is Myanmar/Burma, and this is because owning a computer
is illegal.

China makes certain crypto _use_ illegal. This is not a problem here.

France just got rid of a law (or published a clarification) that
makes this not a problem.

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Mark Murray
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