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Re: summary of non-free/contrib policy

Hi,

	Are we going to have a similair policy for the second largest
 market? if the US economy goes into a tail spin, will we change
 policy? This is getting silly. I still think that the Debian Policy
 should determine what the main Debian Distribution is, and Debian
 policy should not be dictated to by local parochial rules.

	manoj

>>"Rob" == Rob Browning <rlb@cs.utexas.edu> writes:
>>"Jim" == Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com> writes:

Jim> Although I don't live in the US, it's still nice to see that the
Jim> non-US stuff is segregrated from the other stuff in main.

Jim> Why is this a good thing?  (even though the US encryption law
Jim> doesn't affect me directly)

Jim> Well, I could be indirectly affected if I exported a CD
Jim> containing the non-US version of Debian to a customer in the
Jim> States - and they turned around and re-exported it.  This could
Jim> come in the form of a civil lawsuit. So it would be wise to stamp
Jim> any CD containing the Non-US stuff with "Export from USA Requires
Jim> Government License".

Jim> So I think it is still important to make it clear that we
Jim> consider the software to be free (by the DFSG) - but that it is
Jim> still somewhat legally encumbered in the largest economic market
Jim> in the world (the US).

Rob> But it seems like a better solution might be to have a file
Rob> listing all the packages that have particular characteristics,
Rob> and then provide simple scripts that will take this file as
Rob> input, and the desired exclusions, and then produce an CD image
Rob> from a mirror.  This file could also be used to drive a slightly
Rob> modified mirror program. Something like "make-cd --not non-us" or
Rob> "debian-mirror --exclude non-us".  (All this is just off the top
Rob> of my head.  I'm sure there are much better solutions.)



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