Like it or not, Theo has a point... freebsd is shipping export-restricted software in the core

[Randal L. Schwartz]

>>>>> "Michael" == Michael Powell <nightrecon at hotmail.com> writes:

Michael> I was under the impression that the most onerous of these
Michael> export rules and restrictions applied to crypto technology. If
Michael> this is so, what I don't quite grasp is what do crypto export
Michael> restrictions have to do with acpi? Is acpi a copyrighted,
Michael> patented, or trademark otherwise owned by some entity? Quite
Michael> possibly so as it is in contrib. I just have no idea who might
Michael> "own" it. Or how it would fall afoul of crypto export
Michael> restrictions.

Exactly my point.  Either it's crypto, and the whole distro is tainted
and should be marked as such UP FRONT, or it's not, and the paragraph
should be removed, if possible.

Or a third alternative... use the ACPI implementation from OpenBSD,
which doesn't have such a restriction.

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