> > 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.
There might be no *perfect* regime. But there are certainly conuntries with no restrictions at all. Mine being one of them, for example.
