Hi there, On 10/03/14 at 14:57 +0100, Miriam Ruiz wrote: > >> Having read your report, even if someone decided to package it, I > >> wouldn't advise to include it in the archive without speaking > >> beforehand with lawyers that could advice us on the possible risks. > >> I'm not familiar enought with the law in different countries to know > >> what's allowed or not, but from your analysis I fear that by > >> distributing it we might be puting in risk the administrators of some > >> of our mirrors, and I'd like to be sure that's not the case. On the > >> other hand, it's almost impossible to make something that it's not > >> illegal in at least one country in the world. For example, I would be > >> a strong supporter of having LGBT-themed games in the archives, and > >> they might not be legal in Russia. > > > > I agree and consider it a bad thing if anyone suffers because of this. > > > > How are these issues handled currently? > > I honestly don't know. Probably the DPL might have an idea, or maybe > someone in Debian Legal. We could consult our legal support at SFLC about this. That's what we did for the ongoing work on packaging a library required to play many DVDs. However, there are really both moral and legal sides in this discussion. Even if it was OK to accept such a package from the legal side, Debian (ftpmasters) could still decide that it would not be OK, on moral grounds, to accept such a package in Debian. So I'd rather wait until ftpmasters say that it's useful to bring SFLC in the loop before doing so. Lucas
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