Re: Territorial Legal Issues and FTP Archives (was Re: Quake is GPL)

1999-12-31 Thread John Hasler
Fish Smith writes: The idea with non-US is mainly to offer encryption software. (illegal in US) Encryption software is not illegal in the US. It is illegal to export it from the US and therefor illegal to put it up on a public site accessible from outside the US, but it is perfectly legal to

Re: Territorial Legal Issues and FTP Archives (was Re: Quake is GPL)

1999-12-31 Thread Fish Smith
The idea with non-US is mainly to offer encryption software. (illegal in US) Encryption software is not illegal in the US. It is illegal to export it from the US and therefor illegal to put it up on a public site accessible from outside the US, but it is perfectly legal to import it into the

Re: Territorial Legal Issues and FTP Archives (was Re: Quake is GPL)

1999-12-30 Thread Onno
[snip] Why not? Here in the Netherlands mp3's and mp3 encoders are not illigal. BTW I can't think of any software that would be illigal here. But they have to be legal on the non-US mirrors as well as the main non-US FTP site. Isn't that why quake isn't included, because Germany and Argentina

Re: Territorial Legal Issues and FTP Archives (was Re: Quake is GPL)

1999-12-30 Thread Fish Smith
But they have to be legal on the non-US mirrors as well as the main non-US FTP site. Isn't that why quake isn't included, because Germany and Argentina have it illegal? So if several countries with Debian mirrors have laws against mp3 encoders it wouldn't be in non-US, even if it was

Re: Territorial Legal Issues and FTP Archives (was Re: Quake

1999-12-28 Thread Roland Mas
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Onno) writes: At 09:09 PM 12/25/99 -0800, Joseph Carter wrote: On Sat, Dec 25, 1999 at 11:14:28PM +0100, Wichert Akkerman wrote: I think the right solution is selecting a country with good connectivity and less stupid laws. What about canada? pandora is already in

Re: Territorial Legal Issues and FTP Archives (was Re: Quake

1999-12-28 Thread Onno
BTW I can't think of any software that would be illigal here. Any kind of software violating a copyright... That was a no-brainer, but just to be precise: I can't think of any original software that would be illigal here. Regards, Onno PS: here = the Netherlands

Re: Territorial Legal Issues and FTP Archives (was Re: Quake is GPL)

1999-12-28 Thread Fish Smith
I think the right solution is selecting a country with good connectivity and less stupid laws. What about canada? pandora is already in a perfect location... Thought we can't upload mp3 encoders to pandora? Or is that just because some mirrors couldn't handle it? Why not? Here in the