Bug#48045: debian-policy: non-US is a misnomer

[Philip Hands <phil@hands.com>]

Nicol?ás Lichtmaier <nick@debian.org> writes:

> > I thought about naming it 'crypto', but it would also not describe it correctly
> > (since we also have packages encumbered by other silly laws there, like
> > software patents). Any ideas?
> 
>  legally-unsafe ?
>  country-sensitive ?
>  rebel ?
> 
>  Wow, the `rebel' one is nice.

Except that it's very US-centric.  There's nothing rebellious going on
when I upload ssh (from the UK), for instance.

How about:

  free-world

if you want to make a political point.

So that you would say:

 I'm afraid you'll need to get ssh from one of our free-world mirrors,
 because local laws prohibit USA based servers from carrying it.

I actually think this is the wrong way round.  We should really
arrange things so that the complete system is available on a server
somewhere, and then servers in countries that have onerous
restrictions should just avoid mirroring the bits they are not allowed
to carry.  Unfortunately, master is currently located in one of those
regimes, which makes things a bit difficult.

Cheers, Phil.