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List:       kde-policies
Subject:    Re: Updated policy
From:       Andreas Pour <pour () mieterra ! com>
Date:       2004-02-15 18:44:02
Message-ID: 402FBDF2.BF274DC6 () mieterra ! com
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Hi,

For my $0.02, I think what you are doing here is to carve out software that
might violate copyright under US Laws (this language looks similar to what I
have seen in RIAA case news reports).  While it is commendable that you are
concerned with that, I think the focus is too narrow and does not help with
other types of illegality, such as patent law infringement.

Hence I would prefer a policy which is more generic, somehow trying to balance
the risk to KDE of prosecution versus the loss to KDE (to the project, its
members and the KDE user community, with appropriate weights for each category)
of shipping the software or technology in question.

Ciao,

Dre



George Staikos wrote:
> 
> On Friday 13 February 2004 13:15, Olaf Jan Schmidt wrote:
> > After getting constructive feedback from Rob, Gerhard and Harri, I changed
> > the wording of my suggested policy to deal with the mentioned problems.
> >
> > This is my new suggestion:
> >
> > "KDE does not host software which promotes illegal activities or which
> > primary purpose is illegal in the countries where the main KDE servers
> > (web servers, FTP server, CVS server, mailing lists) are located. KDE
> > also does not promote illegal activities on its website, in the
> > documentation and in the default settings.
> 
>   Illegal where?  We host things in various places, and laws vary from country
> to country.  I don't see how you can decide this, and even then, how you will
> resolve conflicts.  In Canada, citizens pay taxes in exchange for
> downloading/copying/sharing content.  Therefore no private citizen is
> harassed about downloading music etc.  Do you propose that we bar all
> software that infringes on any law anywhere?

-- 
None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely
believe they are free.
  -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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