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

Michael Powell nightrecon at hotmail.com
Thu Oct 7 03:11:27 UTC 2010


Michael Powell wrote:

[snip] export restrictions have to do with acpi? Is
> acpi a copyrighted, patented, or trademark otherwise owned by some entity?
> Quite possibly so as it is in contrib. I just have no idea who might "own"
> it. Or how it would fall afoul of crypto export restrictions.
> 
> Looking forward to enlightenment.  :-)
> 
Oh - I see now, it is "owned" by Intel.

-Mike





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