On 4 Sep 2002, Hereward Cooper wrote: > I was wondering. > In the light of the Greek goverment banning[1] ALL forms of electronic > gaming, even playing electronic chess is now illegal, how will this > effect the distribution of debian in Greece? Will there have to be a > non-greece section =)
Playing is not distributing. From all the news reports I've seen, playing is verboten, but I've not seen anything about 'trafficking' in games. But yes, a non-greece section might have to be created - or else just not distribute the games section there. The question also has to asked, well, what's an electronic game? I enjoy programming on my own time, and maintaining debian packages is a bit of a game to me - so will Debian packaging now become illegal in Greece? The law is, quite honestly, ridiculous. As I saw another poster say, (paraphrased) "I'm amazed there is another Western government which can make the US government look like it has a clue". -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- #include <disclaimer.h> Matthew Palmer, Geek In Residence http://ieee.uow.edu.au/~mjp16
