Matthew Garrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Walter Landry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Matthew Garrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> If there were, would we consider the GPL non-free? > > > >It certainly wouldn't be free in that jurisdiction. Whether Debian > >decides to care about such jurisdicitions is, to some degree, a policy > >decision. The thing about privacy is that it affects people in > >_every_ jurisdiction, so checking a license for whether it violates > >your privacy helps everyone. > > But the dissident test would only be an issue in jurisdictions with > hostile governments.
Which happens to be all jurisdictions. Some of them don't shoot you, just fine you or put you in jail (e.g. DMCA). But every jurisdiction has bad laws. > Which suggests (again) that the dissident test doesn't actually > represent the statement you're trying to make. Come again? Regards, Walter Landry [EMAIL PROTECTED]