Re: Are DFSG free package in non-us part of Debian?
Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho <gaia@iki.fi> writes:
> > master, ftp.debian.org and other US mirrors are mirrored all over
> > the world.
>
> Main is not the same thing as ftp.debian.org or the USA mirors.
Hello? Can we please limit this discussion to reality, and not what
might be going on in an alternate reality? master.debian.org *is* the
location of main and it *is* in the USA; it's been this way for years
now and is unlikely to change in the foreseeable future.
I don't care what you want to call main, but I define main as
debian/dists/{unstable,frozen,stable}/main/.
> Declare the DFSG-free part of non-US be a part of main, but do not
> put it on USA-based distribution points. It's as simple as that.
Say what? How is that simple? It's clearly not simple. None of
non-US is on open USA ftp servers and non-US is not usually part of
CDs and it's certainly not part of the official CD. How can something
which is not on the ftp servers or CDs be a part of main? It isn't.
> > If we put crypto software into main, we will be responsible for
> > several mirrors unwittingly violating US export laws.
>
> No. Putting crypto software into main does not mean moving the
> packages to USA-based servers.
Jesus wept, it so does. If I upload a package to main; it goes to
master (USA) and then to ftp.debian.org (USA) and from there to non-US
mirrors.
> > However lame we think the laws may be, deliberately inducing other
> > people to unknowingly break the law is not something we should
> > *ever* contemplate doing.
>
> But this is not being contemplated.
It *is* as long as people continue to talk about putting crypto
software in main.
--
James
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