On Saturday 11 December 2004 14:28, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > 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. point taken, make that: non-us is a good example of letting packages into Debian in a way that avoids it trumping local laws.
-> if it's illegal to ofer it on <some-site> don't offer it there, but keep
it elsewhere
> 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.
If we have a DD wanting to package and mantain some cpu-monitor, then we
obviously have at least 1 person who:
1) thinks the package is worthwhile
2) is willing to do the work to support it as part of Debian
Given that on what basis do we decide which cpu-monitors[1] meeting the
above we allow in, and which we don't? First x of any category are allowed,
is not a good solution IMHO (and definately less then ideal).
Moreover why should we decide any such thing? Why should we not offer
software for which some DD meets 2) above? It simply gives our users more
options, which (IMHO) is a good thing.
[1] or text-editors, or MTA's. or ...
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Cheers, cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis)
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