[Mageia-dev] shall i import sawmill rpm?

[Thomas Backlund]

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