Remco Blaakmeer wrote: > > On Sun, 21 Jan 2001, Jakob Bøhm wrote: > > > Placing crypto software in any part of the main > > archive still has a very important legal problem: > <snip> > > > Sorry, to be putting down a nice idea, but I would > > hate to see the project getting in trouble from > > checking only US laws. > > 'non-US' seems to be a misnomer nowadays (as it has been for some time > already). Should it perhaps be replaced by 'crypto' and 'patented', so > that both can be separately mirrored in different countries? > > Remco
It would be good if the non-US name could be changed, its something thats been *talked* about for a long time.. Debian is an international project, we shouldnt be refering to any one country in the distribution name. non-US is a double meaning anyway, it could be interpreted to mean this is the software that isnt allowed in the US, or that non-US is the stuff that people who arent from the US can use (and they cant use main because it is for the US). Maybe im simple, cause the meaning of non-US caused me some confusion when i first encountered it, and confusing potential users before they even download debian is a bad thing. Glenn
