"Lex Spoon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Walter Landry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > BUT, we are only obligated to the extent the case deals with our own > > > actions. I do not see a problem with this. That seems good and proper > > > to stand up for our own actions. The clause does *NOT* make us liable > > > for all legal attacks on Apple regarding Squeak. > > > > J. Random CD distributor on Battlestar Galactica distributes a copy of > > Squeak to his fellow argonauts. The Silons sue Apple for contributory > > copyright infringement, citing the distribution by J. Random. Now > > J. Random is obligated to defend Apple in US court, even though > > J. Random doesn't even know where Earth is. > > > > J. Random CD distributor is irrelevant to this discussion. Squeak would > be in non-free, where it's user beware and distributor beware.
Ah, I thought you were still contesting the main/non-free distinction. In any case, non-free is not entirely distributor beware. CD manufacturers have to be careful, but mirrors do not. I don't believe that any other license in non-free has this kind of clause, though I'm open to being proven wrong. <snip> > > > I do not understand your issue about locality. The business in question > > > is us, Debian. We already have a distribution server at Berkeley, so we > > > already need to evaluate and comply with the laws of northern > > > California. > > > > The CD distributors are not part of SPI, the non-profit that holds > > title to the vast resources of Debian. In addition, the Debian > > mirrors only look at local law when evaluating whether to mirror > > Debian. They don't look up Northern California law. > > The individual CD distributors should not be automatically distributing > non-free stuff. Thus I still do not see the issue. > > It seems like our non-free infrastructure already needs to obey US > export law, so I do not see the issue with us meeting that license > condition. non-free is not part of the bxa notification scheme, because the bxa notifications is only available for certain type of software of which main is a subset. So there are still packages in non-us/non-free. Regards, Walter Landry [EMAIL PROTECTED]