Hi board, I read the lwn coverage of the discussion going on re packaging of software that is illegal. In particular, the proposed change: "Where, objectively speaking, the package has essentially no useful foreseeable purposes other than those that are highly likely to be illegal or unlawful in one or more major jurisdictions in which Fedora is distributed or used, such that distributors of Fedora will face heightened legal risk if Fedora were to include the package, then the Fedora Project Board has discretion to deny inclusion of the package for that reason alone." I just want to make a note that in many oppressing countries, say, Iran, China, etc, many filtering circumvention and privacy tools may be illegal. It would be wrong to exclude such tools from Fedora. Plus, the whole discussion reminds me of security-by-obscurity reasonings. If the software is out there, not packaging it in Fedora sure is not going to stop any determined person from using it... And there are so many dedicated "security oriented" bootable CD / distors out there that it just makes Fedora less useful by not having a spin for such stuff. My 0.02CAD behdad _______________________________________________ advisory-board mailing list advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/advisory-board
