[Mageia-dev] shall i import sawmill rpm?

Wed Jul 27 11:06:05 CEST 2011

Le mercredi 27 juillet 2011 à 11:10 +0300, Thomas Backlund a écrit :
+> 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.
+> 
+> 
+> Which means that _if_ we provide it, it has to go into tainted repo, as 
+> it's restricted by it's license.
+
+The license just partially reflect the existing export restriction of
+the State Departement of the USAs. 
+
+As this apply to every exportation ( at least, RH take it seriously, as
+well as almost every commercial developers that hired a lawyer to redact
+their EULA ), and that mean for example java-1.6.0-sun rpm, should we
+move it to tainted, along with firefox ( mozilla foundation is US based
+), chromium ( google is US based ), and various RH softwares ( such as
+system-config-printer ), or Novell one ( such as mono ) ?
+
+( please note that the GPL has a dedicated section for that, see the
+point 8 of the license, so they are not non-free due to that )
+
+-- 
+Michael Scherer
+
+