Suggested policy (was: Re: Apollon soon in kde-extragear)

[Waldo Bastian]

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On Fri February 13 2004 16:11, Rob Kaper wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 13, 2004 at 03:30:25PM +0100, Waldo Bastian wrote:
> > I beg to differ. Several courts have granted themselves jurisdiction
> > based on the idea that by publishing information on the internet you
> > publish this information in the country where this information is read
> > and as such are subject to the laws of that country.
>
> Then for the best interest of KDE and our developers, we should stop
> accepting contributions from such countries and firewall connections from
> them on our CVS/download servers?

I am not sure what you mean with "such countries". But, yes, that's one way to 
deal with legal problems that are bound to a specific jurisdiction.

> I'm sorry, but I refuse to bend over for some foreign government.

Well, this isn't about you, I don't care what you do on your own server. But 
for KDE it is a different matter since KDE is an international project and I 
think it is important that all KDE participants, regardless of 
citizenship/residency, can legally work on/with KDE without unnecessary risk 
of persecution.

So if a specific piece of software can not be legally developed in one or more 
countries then that will deserve some special attention. There is some 
precedent wrt the US export restrictions on crypto although that was never an 
issue for KDE.

Cheers,
Waldo
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