On Saturday 11 December 2004 01:13, Rich Walker wrote:
> Thomas Bushnell BSG <tb@becket.net> writes:
> > Rich Walker <rw@shadow.org.uk> writes:
> [3] Non-US exists because export of strong crypto from the US is an
> illegal act in the US. Hence, Debian has already accepted that
> local laws trump idealism.
actually non-us is a good example of letting packages into Debian despite it
being illegal in certain areas.
As discussed elsewhere in this thread this translated nobody is against
giving people the option of classifying packages in Debian (into 'legal in
China', 'not legal in China', ...), and giving people the option to easily
exclude packages in a certain category. ). Provided off course that:
the people that care about such classifications do the actual work (and not
offload it to the rest of us)
At least one mechanism for making classifications is available (debtags),
though a mechanism for exluding packages from mirrors/CD's based on tags
seams currently to be missing.
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