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



On Nov 15, Philip Hands wrote:
> 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.

AFAIK there is no "perfect" regime in the world, and the political
situation in many countries wrt. crypto (for example) is rather
unstable.  For example, the LinuxDVD code is probably only illegal in
the UK, since the "rip" of the encryption algorithm was only illegal
under Britain's copyright law.  I suspect any country where everything
we need to be legal for this to happen is legal probably has zero
bandwidth, since stupid intellectual property laws are highly
correlated with outward bandwidth.


Chris
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