Re: Territorial Legal Issues and FTP Archives (was Re: Quake is GPL)
> >But they have to be legal on the non-US mirrors as
> >well as the main non-US FTP site. Isn't that why
> >quake isn't included, because Germany and Argentina
> >have it illegal? So if several countries with
> Debian
> >mirrors have laws against mp3 encoders it wouldn't
> be
> >in non-US, even if it was legal in the Netherlands.
>
> I don't understand why the non-US mirrors should be
> a problem here. Non-US is there to host packages
> that
> are illigal in other contries (like the US ;-) and
> if another country has a problem with that then:
>
> DON'T MIRROR!
The idea with non-US is mainly to offer encryption
software. (illegal in US) In Germany plenty of people
probably want encryption software but Quake is
illegal.
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