Re: FTPMaster position statement about package contents

2014-03-30 Thread Daniel Pocock
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 28/03/14 22:14, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 09:49:44PM +0100, Bas Wijnen wrote: >> On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 07:41:50PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: >>> I can understand the ftp team's desire to sidestep any moral >>> questions

Re: FTPMaster position statement about package contents

2014-03-28 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 13529 March 1977, Steve Langasek wrote: > I can understand the ftp team's desire to sidestep any moral questions here, > but in the process I think your guidelines have wound up vague and > overbroad, as they suggest that as a project we will never take a stand for > anything but only do what's

Re: FTPMaster position statement about package contents

2014-03-28 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 09:49:44PM +0100, Bas Wijnen wrote: > On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 07:41:50PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > > I can understand the ftp team's desire to sidestep any moral questions here, > > but in the process I think your guidelines have wound up vague and > > overbroad, as the

Re: FTPMaster position statement about package contents

2014-03-28 Thread Bas Wijnen
Hi, On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 07:41:50PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > I can understand the ftp team's desire to sidestep any moral questions here, > but in the process I think your guidelines have wound up vague and > overbroad, as they suggest that as a project we will never take a stand for > an

Re: FTPMaster position statement about package contents

2014-03-27 Thread Steve Langasek
Hi Joerg, On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 09:11:16PM +0100, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > Those are just two examples - we sure could go and write down some > more. But they are examples: we can't foresee all the possible content > someone may propose. > So instead, we have a simple set of questions that should

Re: FTPMaster position statement about package contents

2014-03-25 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 13526 March 1977, Ming-ting Wei wrote: > Distributing pornography in academic network in Taiwan seems like a gray > area. http://edu.law.moe.gov.tw/EngLawContent.aspx?Type=E&id=2 Nice for them, but thats a minority. > If it can be distributed from a separate repo it should be fine, but I also

Re: FTPMaster position statement about package contents

2014-03-25 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 13525 March 1977, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: >> If you can answer these questions with a yes or even a maybe - don't > While I did agree mostly with this. I believe the last sentence should > be reworded. Because aircrack-ng, crack or rarcrack could 'maybe' harm > Debian/mirrors or derivatives. >

Re: FTPMaster position statement about package contents

2014-03-24 Thread Ming-ting Wei
Distributing pornography in academic network in Taiwan seems like a gray area. http://edu.law.moe.gov.tw/EngLawContent.aspx?Type=E&id=2 If it can be distributed from a separate repo it should be fine, but I also wonder how many mirrors are under the place where pornography is not allowed to distri

Re: FTPMaster position statement about package contents

2014-03-24 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
On 3/24/14, Joerg Jaspert wrote: [...] > So instead, we have a simple set of questions that should be applied, > helping to judge contents before upload: > > - Is it likely illegal in the majority of the countries of our >Developers? > > - Will it harm Debian, our mirrors, derivatives or use

Re: FTPMaster position statement about package contents

2014-03-24 Thread Lesley Binks
Thank you Joerg Makes very good sense to me. On 24 March 2014 20:11, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > Hello, > > Triggered by the discussion to include a controversial "visual novel" in > the Debian archive, we feel that a statement from the ftpteam on what is > considered acceptable for the archive is ca