krb5-1.2.8 compile problem

[Steve Langasek]

On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 11:30:57AM -0300, Andreas wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 09:10:56AM -0500, Steve Langasek wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 12:23:49PM +0200, Jerome Walter wrote:
> > 
> > > > Hi.  This is a known problem with the 1.2 version of krb5 that is
> > > > fixed in the 1.3 release.
> > 
> > > Too bad for people out of US, that do not have 1.3 available yet.

> > http://http.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/k/krb5/

> BTW, is this legal? Can Debian put this tarball in a public place even
> after reading everything in that MIT form?

<cough>  I'm not sure the person who uploaded the tarballs in question to
Debian (hartmans at debian.org == hartmans at mit.edu) is actually bound by the
MIT form in question. ;)

In any case, the purpose of the MIT checks are to protect MIT itself from
prosecution by the government, not to give MIT the ability to prosecute
others.  To the best of our knowledge, Debian is in compliance with
current export laws in its distribution of MIT Kerberos (all paperwork
filed in triplicate, etc.); thus, since the US government is unlikely to
take MIT to task for our distribution of the software, there's no
particular danger of MIT coming after us, either.

-- 
Steve Langasek
postmodern programmer