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From: rayan@ai.toronto.edu (Rayan Zachariassen)
Subject: Re: Kerberos official distribution
Message-ID: <89Jan30.204455est.38031@neat.ai.toronto.edu>
Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto
Distribution: ont
Date: Mon, 30 Jan 89 20:44:48 EST

>From README.ftp in the distribution location:

  Copyright (C) 1989 by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  DISTRIBUTION OF THIS SOFTWARE IS RESTRICTED TO THE UNITED STATES OF
  AMERICA.  EXPORT IN ANY FORM IS FORBIDDEN.

... and from the small copyright file in the same place:

/* 
  Copyright (C) 1989 by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

   Export of this software from the United States of America is assumed
   to require a specific license from the United States Government.
   It is the responsibility of any person or organization contemplating
   export to obtain such a license before exporting.

   ...
  */

Read it and weep.

My impression is that Kerberos (at least as applied at MIT-ATHENA) turns
any workstation into a single-user box.  That severely decreases its utility.