On Nov 15, Philip Hands wrote: > I actually think this is the wrong way round. We should really > arrange things so that the complete system is available on a server > somewhere, and then servers in countries that have onerous > restrictions should just avoid mirroring the bits they are not allowed > to carry. Unfortunately, master is currently located in one of those > regimes, which makes things a bit difficult.
AFAIK there is no "perfect" regime in the world, and the political situation in many countries wrt. crypto (for example) is rather unstable. For example, the LinuxDVD code is probably only illegal in the UK, since the "rip" of the encryption algorithm was only illegal under Britain's copyright law. I suspect any country where everything we need to be legal for this to happen is legal probably has zero bandwidth, since stupid intellectual property laws are highly correlated with outward bandwidth. Chris -- ============================================================================= | Chris Lawrence | Get Debian GNU/Linux CDROMs | | <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | http://www.lordsutch.com/cds/ | | | | | Grad Student, Pol. Sci. | Join the party that opposed the CDA | | University of Mississippi | http://www.lp.org/ | =============================================================================
