Package Maintainers Flags policy

Kevin Kofler kevin.kofler at chello.at
Tue May 19 22:28:30 UTC 2009


David Woodhouse wrote:
> Seriously, folks -- we're only doing for flags the _same_ thing we've
> done for a bunch of other things that would make it problematic to ship
> Fedora in certain places.

The thing is, the US is where Fedora is located, so it has no other choice
than to respect its laws (even where this sucks – crippleware due to
software patents is annoying!), China is not.

If we tried to be legal in all countries, we'd have to remove a lot more
stuff than just flags.

        Kevin Kofler




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