Package Maintainers Flags policy

Kevin Kofler kevin.kofler at chello.at
Tue May 19 22:10:57 UTC 2009


David Woodhouse wrote:
> And my understanding is that there _is_ a valid legal reason for it.
> Distributing Fedora in some countries is _illegal_ if it contains
> certain flags, and can lead to extremely uncomfortable repercussions.

And distributing games or some kind of games is illegal in some countries
(e.g. I've read that card and dice games are considered betting in some
Muslim countries, and the status of non-child-safe games or even not
certified child-safe games is dubious in other, even Western, countries),
some countries ban Internet use, so web browsers, e-mail clients and even
updating software might be a problem etc. We're left with nothing to ship
if we remove everything banned in some country.

        Kevin Kofler




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