On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 01:22:58PM -0700, John Galt wrote: > Brian--I've seen your comments on it on the harvard list. In fact, > you could read that the injunction applies to every warm body on Earth and > every program that looks like it could possibly transfer a bit off a > DVD. The MPAA picked a good judge--he stayed bought. However, this is
I don't see how you could possibly read that. I'm not in that judge's jurisdiction. As long as software authors don't make the fatal mistake to mention local laws in global licenses, I don't see why Debian should. We made available strong crypto when it was still illegal in France (for all I know it still is in Russia), I seem to remember Doom being illegal in Germany. There's no reason to deny those things to the rest of the world. -- The idea is that the first face shown to people is one they can readily accept - a more traditional logo. The lunacy element is only revealed subsequently, via the LunaDude. [excerpted from the Lunatech Identity Manual]
