On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 10:10:19AM +1100, Brian May wrote: > I think it would be better to create a distribution of Debian, where > applicable, that meets the legal requirements of the given country. > > That way if you do really want to distribute Debian where there are > laws against XYZ, you can distribute a subset of Debian that doesn't > {do,use,require,consume,kill,display,say,etc} XYZ.
> This also raises lots of issues, like how to do it with minimum fuss > and who is legally responsible (if anybody) if mistakes occur. Also, in much of the civilised world, once you start doing this you suddenly acquire a legal responsibility to do it *right*, which you wouldn't have had if you hadn't tried to do it. Censorship laws are strange like that. [Not likely to be a problem for us as a project, but it might be for people who do this sort of thing. Commercial publishers run into this problem all the time and often decide it's safer not to bother] -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><- |
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