Re: status of non-US
On Wed, Oct 13, 2004 at 03:41:49PM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote:
> * Ian Beckwith (ianb@nessie.mcc.ac.uk) [041013 15:35]:
> > As nothing has been uploaded to non-US/non-free since before the
> > compromise, I suspect it hasn't been reenabled yet.
> Exactly. But we need to update non-US before release of sarge.
> > 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. I asked on
> > debian-legal with no firm consensus. see
> > http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2004/01/msg00294.html
> > I also filed a bug (#258278) against nonus.debian.org, with no
> > response yet.
> Reading the answers on http://www.debian.org/legal/cryptoinmain I doubt
> whether cropto-in-non-free is possible.
The actual export exemption is broad enough that it includes everything
falling under the DFSG, as well as some software that we consider
non-free. However, I don't know that ftpmasters are going to want to
deal with hand-approving licenses for crypto in non-free any more than
they have wanted to make non-US/non-free a high priority to date.
I tend to agree that non-US is not a high priority, giving the small
number of packages that qualify for inclusion there anymore. It would
be nice to have it working again, but I don't think its absence
justifies holding up the release of sarge at this point.
--
Steve Langasek
postmodern programmer
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