Beecrypt retired

Jos Vos jos at xos.nl
Tue Mar 11 21:05:04 UTC 2008


On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 09:57:55PM +0100, Tomas Mraz wrote:

> Well for FLOSS at least we could do it. But have you read the second
> part of Steve's suggestion? That about packaging beecrypt into their
> application? Of course Fedora will still contain more crypto libraries
> than 1 or 2 for many future releases but what about other distros? I for
> example don't see much probability in having beecrypt included in future
> RHEL releases.

Well, I think RHEL has to care about third-party and/or non-FLOSS
software even more than Fedora, so I could imagine that RHEL users
want to keep beecrypt longer than you think.

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