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On Sun, 29 Jun 2003 19:59:57 -0500 |
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Matthew Kennedy <mkennedy@g.o> wrote: |
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> Secondly, do we have legal rights to redistribute themes containing |
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> content that we don't have copyright rights to. |
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While you're talking about it, it makes me think that some packages may |
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not be legal regarding some US laws about cryptography tools export. I |
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don't really know this laws though, cause I'm not american, so I may be |
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wrong... But Debian has this "non-US" mirror, I guess it's for some |
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reasons. I've looked at a: |
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# wget -O - http://non-us.debian.org/ls-lR | awk '{ print$9 }' | \ |
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grep deb | awk -F _ '{ print $1 }' | sort -u |
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and have seen that some of this packages are in portage, with mirrored |
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sources. Maybe we should think about a "non-US" RESTRICT flag to avoid |
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this packaged to be mirrored on US servers? And I also wonder about |
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things like libdvdcss which is probably not okay in countries where it |
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is forbidden to provide cracking tools, or mp3lame which (I think) |
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doesn't respect some software patents, etc. |
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Any thought? Any lawyer on the list? |
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TGL. |
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