[Mageia-dev] shall i import sawmill rpm?

Wed Jul 27 10:10:34 CEST 2011

andre999 skrev 27.7.2011 05:27:
+> David W. Hodgins a écrit :
+>> On Tue, 26 Jul 2011 19:11:44 -0400, Luis Daniel Lucio Quiroz
+>> <dlucio at okay.com.mx>  wrote:
+>>
+>>> Le Tuesday 26 July 2011 16:16:07 vous avez écrit :
+>>>> Le Tuesday 26 July 2011 23:13:49 Samuel Verschelde a écrit :
+>>>>> Le mardi 26 juillet 2011 20:02:34, Luis Daniel Lucio Quiroz a écrit :
+>>>>>> Hello all,
+>>>>>>
+>>>>>> well, i did ask this once in mandriva, now in mageia. I've
+>>>>>> sucessfully
+>>>>>> packed in RPM sawmill (www.sawmill.net) software.
+>>
+>>>> Yes, i will arrange this and communicate with counsill if i got a yes
+>>
+>>> I got a YES
+>>
+>> They understand the mirrors currently have no way of blocking residents of
+>> Cuba, Iran, Iraq, Libya, North Korea or any other country to which the
+>> United
+>> States embargoes goods, or (ii) to the Bosnian Serbs from downloading and
+>> installing the package?
+>
+> That's a provision of the U.S. govt, (followed by the canadian and many other
+> govts), which means that mirrors can't be located in such countries.  But there
+> is nothing to stop residents of those countries from downloading the software,
+> except censorship by various govts.  (Which does happen.)
+> A mirror is not initiating the transfer, and likely has no idea of the real
+> source of the download request.
+
+
+Wich means that _if_ we provide it, it has to go into tainted repo, as 
+it's restricted by it's license.
+
+>
+> That said, I'm not very comfortable with the 30-day trial aspect.  I don't see
+> our role as distributing shareware.  But whatever is decided ...
+>
+
+Yeah,
+I'm not really fond of the idea of providing shareware on our mirrors 
+either.
+
+--
+Thomas
+
+