international crypto laws

[Julian H. Stacey]

To quote 8.1-RELEASE/src/crypto/README
	...
	The separation between src/contrib and src/crypto
	is the result of an old USA law, which made these sources export
	controlled, so they had to be kept separate.

As international crypto laws are ever changing play things of
ignorant politicians, & a pain in the orifice to track, & as FreeBSD
is an international project, it's not just USA law that can be problematic.

We could outsource disinterest in the wold's mess of crypto laws,
by adding a URL to this:
	http://rechten.uvt.nl/koops/cryptolaw/
	Crypto Law Survey indexed by country

Cheers,
Julian
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Julian Stacey, BSD Unix Linux C Sys Eng Consultants Munich http://berklix.com
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