On Sat, Dec 11, 2004 at 01:24:32PM +0100, cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis) wrote: > On Saturday 11 December 2004 01:13, Rich Walker wrote: > > Thomas Bushnell BSG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Rich Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > [3] Non-US exists because export of strong crypto from the US is an > > illegal act in the US. Hence, Debian has already accepted that > > local laws trump idealism. > > actually non-us is a good example of letting packages into Debian despite it > being illegal in certain areas.
Not really. The rest of the explanation for non-US is that those packages weren't illegal to USE in the USA, but were illegal to EXPORT. We don't have a section for packages that you aren't allowed to have, or aren't allowed to use. I'm all for omitting hot-babe just because it's more cruft. How many CPU monitors can we possibly use? I'm not too concerned about where it's legal for adults to use it. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
