Bug#48045: debian-policy: non-US is a misnomer
> > 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.
There might be no *perfect* regime. But there are certainly conuntries with
no restrictions at all. Mine being one of them, for example.
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