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Re: Policy change for "main", "contrib", and "non-free"

Fernando,

The decision to let other countries enforce their own laws concerned
not placing supporting language in the DFSG regarding national laws.
We still have some concern regarding whether we lead others to infringe
upon software patents, and this should effect our FTP archive organization.
The archive policy supports this.

>    We reserve the right to restrict files from being included anywhere in
>    our archives if
> 
>       - their use or distribution would break a law,
> 
>       - there is an ethical conflict in their distribution or use,
> 
>       - we would have to sign a license for them, or
> 
>       - their distribution would conflict with other project policies.

You might put patented packages in spain-only/main or
lichtenstein-only/main after some significant legal analysis, but they
should also appear in US/non-free so that easy access to them will not
be denied to U.S.  users. I think non-us may not be their correct home
since support for foreign software patents varies from nation to
nation. I have a continuing involvement in a U.K.-company vs.
U.S.-company software patent suit, so I know there's at least one other
nation that has software patents, and I believe the U.S. has a patent
treaty with the U.K.

	Thanks

	Bruce
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