On Friday 29 March 2002 12:39 pm, Florian Weimer wrote:
Jeroen Dekkers jeroen@dekkers.cx writes:
RMS does not want to have pervasive crypto in the GNU project because he fears that GNU distribution sites might be shut down if they offer crypto code or code with crypto interfaces. Crypto code should be concentrated in a few packages, even if this leads to technical problems.
I don't understand, if you just place the main machines in Europe or somewhere else we don't have those problems.
At least GCC, wget, Emacs, Ghostscript and the Hurd will need crypto some day, so your suggestion does work too well in practice.
Why would gcc need crypto?