Long Wind writes: > trade war between china and usa is escalating > an early debian distro has flavor for non-us users, because of us > export restriction?
Non-us was not a crippled version of Debian for non-us users. It was a Debian repository located outside the USA for all Debian packages containing strong encryption (and for a while packages that infringed USA software patents). It was used by USA residents and non-USA residents alike. Strong encryption has always been legal here but the government claimed for a while that it was illegal to export Free Software implementing it without a license (this claim was eventually shot down by the courts). It was simpler for Debian to put all strong encryption outside the USA than to figure out how to limit distribution to the USA. > how does usa enforce the law on Internet? It doesn't. It enforces USA law inside the USA, and its powers over the Internet here are weak. -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com Elmwood, WI USA
