[Mageia-dev] Mirror layout

Mon Dec 13 15:19:31 CET 2010

On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 2:44 AM, Ernest N. Wilcox Jr. <ewilcox at bex.net> wrote:
+>  People who break laws are criminals - no ifs,
+> ands, or buts, about it.
+
+People who break _criminal_ laws like murder and assault are criminals.
+People who break _civil_ laws like traffic or zoning are not usually
+considered criminals by the general public.
+So, not all laws are alike and not all people who break laws can be
+reasonably labeled as criminals.
+
+When there is dispute in the larger world community as to whether or
+not some behavior rises to a criminal nature, one cannot assign it
+some moral value and enforce it world-wide with any significance.
+
+> If the Mageia community chooses to opeate as a
+> criminal organization, I will have nothing to do with it.
+
+Based on the  popular (in the US, at least) maxim of "Ignorance of the
+law is no excuse", you as end user are responsible for knowing the
+license of the software and acting accordingly. Just because "illegal"
+software is available does not mean you are compelled to use it. If
+you install software which is permitted in one country but not in
+yours, you would be the "criminal". Legally and morally, you cannot
+pass on the responsibility of obeying any law to someone else. You
+alone have the responsibility for obeying your laws.
+
+In other words, if the taint is available to you, and you believe to
+touch the taint is bad, don't do it. But don't force others to follow
+your rules.
+
+The PLF approach has been a good one because it allows the specific
+option of touching the taint or not while accepting the official
+distro defaults.
+
+-- 
+Hoyt
+