Re: Are DFSG free package in non-us part of Debian?
On 15 Nov 1998, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> Hi
> >>"Martin" == Martin Schulze <joey@finlandia.Infodrom.North.DE> writes:
>
> Martin> Since it cannot redistributed by a US citizen to a non-us citizen
> Martin> it is not *perfectly* free.
>
> Oh bullshit. What makes the US government the deciding
> authority? What if Saddam Hussein decides that vi is not
> freely importable into IRAQ, you shall decide vi is not free? Why
> does the US government have that kind of control over Debian?
>
> We may need to move our archives to a free country before we
> can technically have packages in US/main depend on packages in
> non-US/main, but this crap about the US being the center of the
> universe makes my skin crawl.
>
> This may be news to you, folks, but the united states of
> america is not the center of the known universe. Get over it.
>
Hear hear. Just because the US is quite technologically advanced... What?
I believe (I may be wrong..) New Zealand had EFTPOS way before the US. Do
you guys have it now? I wouldnt know.. I've never been to the US.
Michael Beattie (mickyb@es.co.nz)
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