“After extensive consultations with our legal counsel, we
believe that we have found a reasonable method of supporting
cryptography on kernel.org. Consequently, the following change in
kernel.org policy will take effect Monday Feb 14, 2000 at 22:00 UTC
(14:00 PST, 17:00 EST, 23:00 MET) *UNLESS OTHERWISE IS INDICATED
BEFORE THEN* (in case the situation changes.)”
“a) Cryptographic Open Source software will be permitted on
kernel.org. For binaries, *the source must be available on
kernel.org*. This will need to be strictly enforced, so
contributors, please stick to this rule.”
“b) We can no longer support official mirrors in the following
countries, or allow other official mirrors to be listed as
supporting them: Afghanistan, Cuba, Iran, Iraq, Libya, North Korea,
Sudan, Syria or Yugoslavia. (The situation with Yugoslavia is a bit
tricky, since the regs only apply to Serbia, specifically. If we
end up having someone wanting to set up a Montenegrine mirror,
we’ll deal with it then.)”