On Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 03:40:56PM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > >>"Jakob" == Jakob Bøhm <jbj@image.dk> writes: > > Jakob> 2. Mechanical filtering on specific common issues including > Jakob> the meta-issue "other problems" becomes possible, e.g. when > Jakob> creating cd-roms or mirrors, or when setting up a > Jakob> fool-proofing filter on apt to protect oneself from accidentally > Jakob> installing the wrong thing. > > Jakob> Some examples of issues for 2 include > > Jakob> no-source (example: Netscape, opera) > Jakob> no-commercial-use (example: zyxel) > Jakob> payment-required (example: opera<5.0) > Jakob> contains-crypto (example: RSA, gnupg) > Jakob> uses-us-patent (example: IDEA, GIF) > Jakob> uses-non-us-patent (example: IDEA) > Jakob> contaminates-result-license (example: old bison) > Jakob> no-sell-copies (problem for cd-rom or pre-installed system) > Jakob> requires-other-sw (example: wrapper script which is not itself DFSG) > Jakob> requires-specific-hw (example: driver licensed only for specific hw) > Jakob> other-problems (any problems not listed, alone or in addition) > > Someone got convicted in Texas for doing something vaguely > similar, on the grounds they were practicing law without a > licence. In fact, you shall be opening yourself to liability in the > US, since this is close to giving legal advice to people. > > This is one of the resons we have not previously classified > the non-free packages. > IANAL, but, I believe the case in texas had to do with a company called Nolo, which made a business out of selling do-it-yourself law guides (wills, suits, divorces, etc). The Texas legal profession got pissed, since Nolo was taking their clients, and sued. I think that the package categorization is really a far cry from what Nolo was doing (not that I think Texas was right to prosecute them). It should also be noted that the case against Nolo is over, and Texas in fact passed a law protecting them from such suits. See http://www.nolo.com/Texas sam th sam@uchicago.edu http://www.abisource.com/~sam/ GnuPG Key: http://www.abisource.com/~sam/key
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