On Tue, 2004-11-30 at 10:32 +0000, Tim Cutts wrote: > On 30 Nov 2004, at 8:08 am, Joe Wreschnig wrote: > > > However, pornography causes significant legal problems in the US, and > > probably moreso in many other countries. If I give a Debian CD > > containing this software to a minor, am I distributing pornography? (It > > sure looks like it, from the pictures.) This is considered a felony in > > most parts of the US. Given the contributions made by people under 18 > > and/or 21 to Debian, this seems to cause a major technical and legal > > problem, regardless of any ethical one. > > > > I would ask, for this reason, that the software not be included in > > Debian main. > > I think this is a strong argument. But it probably also applies to > things like the bible. There are countries in the world where > distributing the bible is illegal. It is presumably therefore also > illegal to distribute Debian in those countries. > > If there's going to be a policy of this sort it should be consistent. Put such possibly controversial matter in contrib? Is contrib on disk 1? If not, then at least disk 1 would be legal anywhere. Should this be moved to debian-legal? -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson, LA USA PGP Key ID 8834C06B I prefer encrypted mail. Don't think of it as a flame, think of it as an argument that does 3d6 fire damage!
Attachment:
signature.asc
Description: This is a digitally signed message part