Re: status of non-US
On Wed, Oct 13, 2004 at 03:54:33PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 13, 2004 at 02:30:24PM +0100, Ian Beckwith wrote:
> > I suspect, since the crypto-in-main move, that crypto no longer needs
> > to live in non-US/non-free, and could move to non-free.
>
> No, this is not the case.
>
> The expert restrictions which prompted the non-US archive still exist,
> they have only been relaxed. According to the lawyer which the Debian
> project consulted at the time, we could move Free Software packages to
> the main (as in, not the non-US) archive if certain conditions were met;
> however, this was not true for non-free software.
Oh well, at least I've got a definitive answer.
thanks,
Ian.
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