Manoj probably won't like this, since it borders on giving legal advice, but here goes:
Instead of splitting non-free into different directories like cd-ok (etc etc etc), why can't we put another tag into the package's control file, called 'Redistribution:', and set it to values like 'dfsg', 'cd', 'commercial', 'exclusive', 'government', 'ftp', all of which could be excluded with 'no-'? We could even do stuff like 'no-export' for non-us packages, and perhaps put in stuff like 'fails-dfsg-#'. My feeling is that once a package acquires a tag like 'fails-dfsg-6' or 'no-government', it will be easier to catch accidental uploads to main, and it will be more obvious to the developer where they were led astray. And it can't hurt to put a big huge disclaimer across the whole thing. Keep in mind Policy section 2.1: * We want to make as much software available as we can. * We want to encourage everyone to write free software. * We want to make it easy for people to produce CD-ROMs of our system without violating any licenses, import/export restrictions, or any other laws. Making all our vendors decide for themselves what is legal to put on a CD does not further goals 1 and 3. -- Robert Woodcock - [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Unix and C are the ultimate computer viruses" -- Richard Gabriel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
