[Mageia-dev] shall i import sawmill rpm?

[Michael Scherer]

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