on 7/4/2007 2:29 AM, Alan Cox wrote: > On Wed, 4 Jul 2007 08:09:42 +0000 (UTC) > Thufir <hawat.thufir@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> On Tue, 03 Jul 2007 21:17:12 -0700, David Boles wrote: >> >> >>> I am not with Fedora but just a Fedora user for a long time. Fedora has >>> said this has to do with USA laws *and* company policy to only provide >>> FOSS. Which I think is a really goo thig.None of the third party sites >>> that I, myself, know of are in the USA. You can read that as you wish. >> Well, now I'm curious. What possible US law could apply? Aside from GPL >> issues none come to mind. Do you have more specific info? > > See 2600 Magazine v USA (the decision over linking to DeCSS) > > It's a common confusion that the US has "free speech". The US has "free > political speech" (mostly) and the two are quite different. > > Alan Thank you Alan. You said that much better than I could have ever done. While you are here. Complements on the work on the kernels. They work just great for me. I am sure that you see many more complaints than you see do a thank you. This *is* a thank you. And I really need to try to do better proof reading when the grandkid rug rats are underfoot before I hit <send>. ;-) -- David
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