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List:       gentoo-dev
Subject:    Re: [gentoo-dev] propose: remove themes from portage
From:       Thomas de Grenier de Latour <degrenier () easyconnect ! fr>
Date:       2003-06-30 1:52:53
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On Sun, 29 Jun 2003 19:59:57 -0500
Matthew Kennedy <mkennedy@gentoo.org> wrote:

> Secondly, do we have legal rights to redistribute themes containing
> content that we don't have copyright rights to. 

While you're talking about it, it makes me think that some packages may
not be legal regarding some US laws about cryptography tools export. I
don't really know this laws though, cause I'm not american, so I may be
wrong... But Debian has this "non-US" mirror, I guess it's for some
reasons. I've looked at a:

  # wget -O - http://non-us.debian.org/ls-lR | awk '{ print$9 }' | \
    grep deb | awk -F _ '{ print $1 }' | sort -u 

and have seen that some of this packages are in portage, with mirrored
sources. Maybe we should think about a "non-US" RESTRICT flag to avoid
this packaged to be mirrored on US servers? And I also wonder about
things like libdvdcss which is probably not okay in countries where it
is forbidden to provide cracking tools, or mp3lame which (I think)
doesn't respect some software patents, etc. 

Any thought? Any lawyer on the list?

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TGL.

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