IANAL, etc., but how about getting some legal advice on this? It seems to me it wouldn't be nearly as cut and dried as all that; have you examined whether or not such a scheme could be set up in such a way that makes it a DMCA safe harbour?
Cheers, Michael On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 7:47 AM, Russ Allbery <r...@debian.org> wrote: > Michael Gilbert <michael.s.gilb...@gmail.com> writes: >> On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 1:07 PM, Russ Allbery wrote: > >>> For the main archive, the NEW check I think is best thought of as a >>> spot check to ensure maintainers are doing their jobs. The real >>> responsibility of not uploading non-redistributable material lies with >>> the Debian project members with upload rights. ftpmaster is just >>> checking for mistakes (at the point at which most mistakes are made). > >>> The difference for mentors is that the uploaders are not (yet) Debian >>> project members and are not guaranteed to be trained in our licensing >>> policies, and have not agreed to follow our rules. > >> So, I think these concerns can be abated by thinking of mentors more of >> an alternative NEW queue for newcomers; rather than as an alternative >> package pool, which it's not (binary packages are not served, and files >> hosted are not widely distributed since most users wouldn't know what to >> do with a source package even if they got one). > > The problem with thinking of mentors as a NEW queue is that one of the key > properties of the NEW queue is that Debian does not distribute the files > in that queue. In other words, they are not retrievable by people other > than those doing NEW processing until they've been approved. > > As long as files are kept within the project, Debian is unlikely to get in > much trouble (although historically we've had to be careful about US > export regulations as well), even if the software is non-redistributable. > But once Debian is serving out copies of the files to the general public, > via whatever means, the project (insofar as the project has a legal > existence, which is admittedly weird) is responsible for that > distribution, could be sued, etc. > > So, it would work to think of mentors as a NEW queue provided that things > uploaded to it are only available to Debian project members. If they're > available to the general public, it's something else. > > -- > Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87obtyyubr....@windlord.stanford.edu > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAFBbO2S_=+zpnpfrubx+oj8kz5k5g82zvgyebh7-tqj83d7...@mail.gmail.com
