On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 12:49:22AM -0700, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > > You must not send via email any item which it is illegal to send or > > possess. > > You must not send (via email) or post Copyright material or > > Intellectual Property unless you have permission to do so. > > I recall only ever finding two violations of the above, and I assure you I > had their accounts locked within the hour, and they were ultimately > expelled from the project. If you were to follow debian-legal, you'd find that this sort of thing happens all the time. We regularly find stuff in the archive that shouldn't be there. It's usually a mistake. There are two primary flaws in these two rules. Firstly, they condemn unintentional and unknowing violations, and secondly, they fail to specify a jurisdiction. Do DMCA violations count? Certainly it's not illegal for me to send material in violation of the DMCA (since I am a UK citizen and have never been to the US), but it might be a federal crime for an American to receive it. Most of the others I quoted have similar giant holes. Rules that don't mean what they say aren't worth the space they occupy. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><- |
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