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<H1>[Mageia-dev] shall i import sawmill rpm?</H1>
<B>Michael Scherer</B>
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<I>Wed Jul 27 11:06:05 CEST 2011</I>
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<PRE>Le mercredi 27 juillet 2011 à 11:10 +0300, Thomas Backlund a écrit :
><i> andre999 skrev 27.7.2011 05:27:
</I>><i> > David W. Hodgins a écrit :
</I>><i> >> On Tue, 26 Jul 2011 19:11:44 -0400, Luis Daniel Lucio Quiroz
</I>><i> >> <<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">dlucio at okay.com.mx</A>> wrote:
</I>><i> >>
</I>><i> >>> Le Tuesday 26 July 2011 16:16:07 vous avez écrit :
</I>><i> >>>> Le Tuesday 26 July 2011 23:13:49 Samuel Verschelde a écrit :
</I>><i> >>>>> Le mardi 26 juillet 2011 20:02:34, Luis Daniel Lucio Quiroz a écrit :
</I>><i> >>>>>> Hello all,
</I>><i> >>>>>>
</I>><i> >>>>>> well, i did ask this once in mandriva, now in mageia. I've
</I>><i> >>>>>> sucessfully
</I>><i> >>>>>> packed in RPM sawmill (www.sawmill.net) software.
</I>><i> >>
</I>><i> >>>> Yes, i will arrange this and communicate with counsill if i got a yes
</I>><i> >>
</I>><i> >>> I got a YES
</I>><i> >>
</I>><i> >> They understand the mirrors currently have no way of blocking residents of
</I>><i> >> Cuba, Iran, Iraq, Libya, North Korea or any other country to which the
</I>><i> >> United
</I>><i> >> States embargoes goods, or (ii) to the Bosnian Serbs from downloading and
</I>><i> >> installing the package?
</I>><i> >
</I>><i> > That's a provision of the U.S. govt, (followed by the canadian and many other
</I>><i> > govts), which means that mirrors can't be located in such countries. But there
</I>><i> > is nothing to stop residents of those countries from downloading the software,
</I>><i> > except censorship by various govts. (Which does happen.)
</I>><i> > A mirror is not initiating the transfer, and likely has no idea of the real
</I>><i> > source of the download request.
</I>><i>
</I>><i>
</I>><i> Which means that _if_ we provide it, it has to go into tainted repo, as
</I>><i> it's restricted by it's license.
</I>
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
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