> If it is - better move the distribution outside the US now, it only > gets worse. Not only something that was in the public domain may be > patented, you can also get in trouble if there is a four-letter word > in some package. It is very unfortunate that most Linux distributions > come from the US, and users around the world have to live with such > silly restrictions. And the free world is only 100ms away...
This is why we moved the mailing list out of the U.S. > Proposal: not necessarily before the 1.1 release, but perhaps one of > the many non-US Debian mirror sites could become the primary site. At the very least we should have an outside-of-US site for some components now. At one time I think we distributed PGP from Cambridge. Bruce