On Jul 23, 2025 20:18, Soren Stoutner <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I agree with all of the above. I believe this is already Debian’s de facto > policy, but any Code of Acceptable Content we develop should explicitly state > that Debian will not distribute illegal content in the jurisdictions we > support, and that, because Debian will never perform age verification on its > users, that means that Debian will not distribute material that is illegal > for > minors in jurisdictions it supports. > > The distinction about jurisdictions we support is important. As regional > variations in laws increases, we are soon going to have to confront > difficulties in local laws prohibiting fundamental aspects of Debian’s > mission. For example, I do not think it will be too far distant when some > parts of the world will make the DFSG 5 "No Discrimination Against Persons or > Groups” and DFSG 6 "No Discrimination Against Fields of Endeavor” illegal by > requiring software distributions to discriminate against persons, groups, and > fields of endeavor. At that point, we are going to have to decide if we will > lower our standards or if we will cease to actively distribute in and support > those jurisdictions. My expectation is that we will decide to withdraw from > those jurisdictions rather than allow them to rewrite the DFSG. In those > cases where we no longer support a jurisdiction because its laws conflict > with > our core principles, then abiding by the laws of that jurisdiction will no > longer apply to the Code of Acceptable Content either. > > -- > Soren Stoutner > [email protected] There may be some edge cases. What if a country decided to forbid shipping youtube downloaders ? Or gambling software ? Thomas Goirand (zigo)
