Florian Weimer wrote:
* Wouter Verhelst:Uhm. Debian has had two lawyers look at the respective laws and suggest us a procedure, which we follow; and it included setting the permission bits as they currently are. We've done that for a few years now, and nothing bad has happened. Why should we suddenly change it?Sam Hartman's analysis indicates that Debian needs export licenses before non-US ftp-masters (or debian-admin members) can look at the packages.
Uh, Sam was fairly heavily involved in establishing the current process; if you're getting the impression his analysis indicated something else, you're misunderstanding it.
The current procedure was developed in consultation with, and vetted by, a lawyer who specialises in export law, on a non-pro-bono basis. Certainly reasonable people can disagree and might choose to offer different advice, but, and I believe it's fair to say I'm speaking on behalf of the ftpmaster group here, we're completely satisfied with the advice we have.
Is there some particular reason you're continuing this thread even though your question ("Why isn't queue/new worl-readable?") was answered a dozen messages ago?
Cheers, aj