Protection of Minors, was: Re: CoC policy for package contents

2025-08-01 Thread Ilu
Am 01.08.25 um 15:28 schrieb Salvo Tomaselli: Hello, In the absence of age verification - laws already force us and we have to deal with that. I agree that we do not need a Content CoC. Actually, keeping stuff appropriate for children covers everything I can imagine a CoC would require. Are w

Protection of Minors, was: Re: CoC policy for package contents

2025-08-01 Thread Ilu
Am 01.08.25 um 11:23 schrieb Wouter Verhelst: > Parental controls don't need a separate section. They need you to not > give root access to the child. Certainly, but legislators don't care about technicalities. If they say gras needs to be red they expect you to make it so. (Best example: legal

Re: CoC policy for package contents

2025-07-24 Thread Ilu
Am 24.07.25 um 15:28 schrieb Bdale Garbee: Ilu writes: I'm not sure whether developing a Code of Acceptable Content policy at this point in time is a good idea though. I'll go much further than that, and say that I believe it's an exceptionally bad idea. As Debian Developer

Re: CoC policy for package contents

2025-07-24 Thread Ilu
Am 24.07.25 um 15:57 schrieb Salvo Tomaselli: Hello, That very much depends on "which quotes?". I've seen mentions of quotes inciting hatred against certain groups and quotes from a certain historical period that you are not allowed to repeat in Germany without extensive discussion of historica

Re: CoC policy for package contents

2025-07-24 Thread Ilu
Am 24.07.25 um 13:50 schrieb Hanno 'Rince' Wagner: at is offensive the package we were discussing is not illegal, like being a package about gambling, pornography or something similar. it is a fortunes-package where quotations are in. That very much depends on "which quotes?". I've seen mention

Re: CoC policy for package contents

2025-07-24 Thread Ilu
Am 24.07.25 um 13:31 schrieb Hanno 'Rince' Wagner: Hi Ilu, On Thu, 24 Jul 2025, Ilu wrote: I see absolutely no reason for an uproar about a minor package that the release team (I fully trust their evaluation) considered to be not adequate for being legally distributed by Debi

Re: CoC policy for package contents

2025-07-24 Thread Ilu
Am 24.07.25 um 12:27 schrieb Ilu: Shipping gambling software is already forbidden in some jurisdictions since Debian does not do age verification. At least if the gambling involves money in some way. Needs further investigation, does Debian have such a package? Shipping youtube downloaders

Re: CoC policy for package contents

2025-07-24 Thread Ilu
Am 23.07.25 um 21:55 schrieb Soren Stoutner: On Wednesday, July 23, 2025 12:21:38 PM Mountain Standard Time Russ Allbery wrote: tho...@goirand.fr writes: There may be some edge cases. What if a country decided to forbid shipping youtube downloaders ? Or gambling software ? Or cryptographic al

Re: CoC policy for package contents

2025-07-24 Thread Ilu
Am 23.07.25 um 20:59 schrieb tho...@goirand.fr: There may be some edge cases. What if a country decided to forbid shipping youtube downloaders ? Or gambling software ? Thomas Goirand (zigo) Shipping gambling software is already forbidden in some jurisdictions since Debian does not do age

Re: CoC policy for package contents

2025-07-22 Thread Ilu
More importantly than morality issues Debian needs to consider legal issues. I have no idea whether a CoC or GR is needed but if such an GR is put to the vote legal constraints cannot be ignored. Am 21.07.25 um 20:05 schrieb Lucas Nussbaum: On 21/07/25 at 19:22 +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: I

Re: Proposal -- Interpretation of DFSG on Artificial Intelligence (AI) Models

2025-05-13 Thread Ilu
e heard that from several other people active in machine learning. OSI says the same. Mo Zhu says training data is. I haven't heard that from anybody else. I'm not an AI expert so I don't know. I would like to see this discussed for a change. Ilu

Re: [RFCv3] Counter-Proposal -- Interpretation of DFSG on Artificial Intelligence (AI) Models

2025-05-10 Thread Ilu
Am 11.05.25 um 00:51 schrieb Thorsten Glaser: The copyright exception for text and data mining is only valid for uses that extract trends and things like that, not for generative use Article 53 (1c) EU Artificial Intelligence Act and the Landgericht Hamburg do not agree with this statement. Th

Re: recent changes to the CRA address FLOSS community concerns?

2023-12-09 Thread Ilu
Am 09.12.23 um 04:07 schrieb Paul Wise: > > Does anyone have any more info about the changes? > Yes, I've seen the leaked document. I (and not only I) think NL-labs outlook is too optimistic. It's also necessary to understand that these kind of statements (the "update, december 2023") are also par

Re: CRA and PLD vote status

2023-12-08 Thread Ilu
Am 08.12.23 um 21:13 schrieb Russ Allbery: Ilu writes: CRA + PLD proposals include regulations, that will be detrimental to FOSS How about: CRA and PLD proposals include regulations detrimental to FOSS This would be real-english-english? ;-) If it has the same meaning, fine by me

Re: CRA and PLD vote status

2023-12-08 Thread Ilu
Am 08.12.23 um 20:55 schrieb Judit Foglszinger: The CRA and PLD proposals include regulations, that will be detrimental to free and open source software We've never had such a long option, and I'm worried this will break for some people trying to vote when it gets wrapped to the next line. But

Re: CRA and PLD vote status

2023-12-08 Thread Ilu
The CRA and PLD proposals include regulations, that will be detrimental to free and open source software Am 08.12.23 um 20:40 schrieb Kurt Roeckx: The CRA and PLD will be detrimental to open source software

CRA is effectively a "law", was Re: This does not have to be a GR

2023-11-22 Thread Ilu
Since this error comes up again and again on this list: The CRA is a "Regulation" (look at the long title: "REGULATION OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL on horizontal cybersecurity requirements for products with digital elements and amending Regulation (EU) 2019/1020"), in effect a la

Re: Call for vote: public statement about the EU Legislation "Cyber Resilience Act and Product Liability Directive"

2023-11-16 Thread Ilu
and you all probably figured this out ... anyway, sorry about that. Am 12.11.23 um 16:10 schrieb Santiago Ruano Rincón: Dear Debian Fellows, Following the email sent by Ilu to debian-project (Message-ID: <4b93ed08-f148-4c7f-b172-f967f7de7...@gmx.net>), and as we have discussed duri

Re: Call for vote: public statement about the EU Legislation "Cyber Resilience Act and Product Liability Directive"

2023-11-13 Thread Ilu
tement does not have to be perfect. It can very well be more radical or even too radical. That does not hurt, ramping up your demands and then offering a compromise is the way politics work. Ilu Am 13.11.23 um 17:57 schrieb Aigars Mahinovs: Thanks for the detailed explanation! It had quite a

Re: Call for vote: public statement about the EU Legislation "Cyber Resilience Act and Product Liability Directive"

2023-11-13 Thread Ilu
ged in a substantial way. Law enforcement is pressuring for it. All the more reason to voice dissent. Ilu Am 13.11.23 um 14:46 schrieb Aigars Mahinovs: On Mon, 13 Nov 2023 at 12:31, Luca Boccassi wrote: I am *not* objecting to Debian taking such a vote and expressing the stance intended. Ho

Re: Call for vote: public statement about the EU Legislation "Cyber Resilience Act and Product Liability Directive"

2023-11-13 Thread Ilu
by CRA, that's NIS2. If you are familiar with European legislation you will know that. Ilu Am 12.11.23 um 18:35 schrieb Ilulu: Am 12.11.23 um 18:09 schrieb Luca Boccassi: > We do know whether something is commercial or not though ... I sincerely doubt that. Just to illustrate this I