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Jean-Michel Dault
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On Thu, 22 Jun 2000, vern wrote:
> Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2000 17:23:51 -0400
> From: vern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> To: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: [expert] How will this effect Mandrake?
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> I read this on freshmeat today and wondered if it
> will have an impact on the way Mandrake does business?
> vern
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> subject: Possible Threat to French Open Source Sites
> added by: jeff covey on Jun 21st 2000, 07:40
> category: Editorial
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> 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
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