On Wed, Feb 14, 2001 at 02:09:08PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 13, 2001 at 03:35:00PM +0100, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> > retitle 81852 [AMENDMENT 07/02/2001] Allowing crypto in the main archive
> > thanks
>
> For reference, I object to this proposal until we have the legal opinion
> we've been waiting for ever since the government policy changed.
>
> Additionally, just changing 2.1.5 would make it inconsistent with
> 2.1.4: current policy says patented programs should be in non-free,
> not in non-US.
This needs fixing, then.
> This proposal was also seconded by Julian Gilbey (under the proviso that
> the legalities are okay).
And I agree with Aj: until we have a legal opinion to support us, we
should be very careful. If we already have that, then I'm fine with
this proposal.
Julian
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