Re: Status on Proposal for restricted packages

[Raul Miller <rdm@test.legislate.com>]

Raul writes:
> > Debian can help people by providing information about hot topics.  Or,
> > we can pretend to be legal experts and make claims about the legality of
> > things under legal systems most of us haven't studied for even a second.

john@dhh.gt.org <john@dhh.gt.org> wrote:
> My sytem no more does that then does yours.

Eh?

Let's take the example of a web browser which supports SSL and GIFs.
Under my scheme the maintainer would tag it with the labels "gif" and
"crypto".

What would the maintainer tag it with on your scheme?

> BTW did you post a complete description of your system?

I'm not sure what you mean by a "complete description".  I've posted
the fundamental idea, but there's a variety enhancements that could be
made, if they're important.  Simple extensibility is a good property in
a design.

-- 
Raul