---- David BAUDENS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sunday 17 February 2002 10:04, you wrote:
> > Michael Reinsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > > Hi!
> > >
> > > What happened to gtk-gnutella in contrib? I can't find it anymore
> > > on uninett and sunet...
> >
> > David Baudens said to me that it could be legally problematic to
> have
> > it and asked me to remove it.
> >
> > I trusted him, but do not know the exact status of such programs.
> 
> Legal status of programms like this one is unknown because they allow
> 
> to access to non legal material. So, we need to be safe and to not
> 
> distribute them.
> 
> This is the same problem than for libcss.
> 
> -- 
> David BAUDENS
> MandrakeSoft - http://www.mandrakesoft.com
> 

By that logic, ftp clients and web browsers should be removed from the
distro, also. 

-- 

Murray J. Root
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