>>"Jakob" == Jakob Bøhm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Jakob> The main archive is mirrored and copied around the globe both
Jakob> inside and outside SPI. Including anything which it would
Jakob> be illegal to post or copy anywhere in the world could get
Jakob> those mirrors and users in trouble.
Aside from being silly, and holding ourselves hostage to any
bunch of lawmakers anywhere in the world, this is impractical. Care
to tell me if make is free under all the laws of Estonia? What about
Kazhakstan? Did you know that the comments in the source code of the
kernel itself make it illegal to put on a web site in at least 3
legal jurisdictions I am aware of?
Debian is inclusive; and things that can't be put on master
are put on the non-{the country master lives in} servers. People in
jurisdiction where some software is illegal, can always craft rsync
rules to do partial mirrors.
I still object to this on the grounds of freedom of
expression. if not just mere impracticality: We can't afford to bring
Debian down to the most common denominator (even given that we could
even begin to discover what that is -- I know that it can't include
the Linux kernel) at the mercy of all parochial laws out there.
Oh, in case you are wondering, I shall formally object to any
such scheme to pull any more software off master that we are not
constrained to do because of silly parochial laws of the locale master
is hosted in.
manoj
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programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of
regeneration. Edsger W. Dijkstra, SIGPLAN Notices, Volume 17, Number
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