I read this on freshmeat today and wondered if it
will have an impact on the way Mandrake does business?
vern
subject: Possible Threat to French Open Source Sites
added by: jeff covey on Jun 21st 2000, 07:40
category: Editorial
body:
John Fremlin writes: Next week, the French National Assembly will
vote on appending a chapter to the law limiting freedom of
communication. As written, it would unambiguously prohibit hosting of
content of unspecified provenance; that is, sites on which users could
post material would be legally obligated to somehow determine the true
identities and postal addresses of their users. The free software
community is directly affected, as large Open Source projects don't
have the requisite information about their contributors and could not
legally be made available in France. Incidentally, several Open Source
projects are hosted by altern.org (for example, consoletools and all
of my programs), which would have to shut down.
|> http://freshmeat.net/news/2000/06/21/961587656.html
