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Re: A Proposal to solve the non-US problem.



Peter Makholm writes:
> The other problem is knowing which packages should be restricted to which
> countries. No one knows which silly laws EU, US or even Iraq has.

That's a problem for any activity.  We can only deal with the laws we know
about.

> Debian should clearly mark that users are responsibel for checking if
> some packages is restricted in their country. We can _help_ the users by
> making a restricted line.

It would be good to warn users about any legal restrictions we are aware
of, but that problem is orthogonal to the one of keeping our servers legal
while making free software as widely available as possible.
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