On Tuesday 03 February 2009 10:14:20 Kevin Kofler wrote:
Eli Wapniarski wrote:
> Absolutely agree. There is no legal liability issue in every country
> other than in China. Which means that if you include the flags people
> living in the Peoples Republic of China will not be able to legally use
> Fedora. Which means that any maverick out there could potentially face
> prosecution depending on the mood of the authorities over there or,
> potentially have every download site with a Fedora distro blocked by The
> Great Firewall of China. Meaning the people over there won't be able to
> get Fedora at all. Putting the flags in a third party repository allows
> us users to install the flags if we want them (we do want them don't we).
> If a maverick chooses to install them, then they can do so with eyes wide
> open if, of course, The Great Firewall of China will allow them access to
> the repositories.
>
> I realize for most of us it's a freedom of speech issue. I agree it sucks
> big time. But, we don't live in China. And with 3rd party repos we can be
> "polite" while having our cake and eating it too. The Chinese can get
> Fedora without us picking a fight we can't win.
But a lot of countries ban things, for example some countries ban games or
at least certain kinds of games, others ban cryptography or some kinds of
cryptography etc. If we remove everything banned in some country, what do
we have left to ship?
Kevin Kofler
Like I said. I agree with this 100%. I just wanted to point the potential
consequences of including the flags in the main distro. I for one will live
quite happily with whatever decision the steering committee makes as I
personally will not be negatively affected by their inclusion. And if they are
excluded, then I will quite happily continue to get them from the extra
package provided by rpmfusion.
Eli
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