Beecrypt retired

Patrice Dumas pertusus at free.fr
Thu Mar 13 16:03:50 UTC 2008


On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 07:42:10AM -0400, Steve Grubb wrote:
> 
> What is different about this is that the package in question is crypto 
> related. There are export restrictions and a lot of tracking associated with 
> it. If you leave it in the distribution, eventually someone will base their 
> new project off of it and all the work we did to remove it is all for 
> nothing.
> 
> Let the package die.

I don't really understand the the export restriction issue. But 'all the
work we did to remove it' should not bind packagers that don't have the
same agenda.

--
Pat




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