Re: Debian and Cuba

2005-03-28 Thread Ean Schuessler
In 2003 I legally visited Cuba under a US State Department issued visa for the purpose of attending the Havana Biennial art festival. During my visit I arranged to meet with some members of the Linux community in Havana and have corresponded, off and on, with some of them since. The primary ins

Re: Debian and Cuba

2005-03-26 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sat, Mar 26, 2005 at 10:54:54PM +0100, Michael Below wrote: > Sean Kellogg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Um, yeah, I'm not a lawyer either... but I play one at school, and I > > wouldn't > > be so sure about that. While Cuba/US relations are pretty bad, Cuba does > > have relationships w

Re: Debian and Cuba

2005-03-26 Thread Michael Below
Sean Kellogg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Um, yeah, I'm not a lawyer either... but I play one at school, and I > wouldn't > be so sure about that. While Cuba/US relations are pretty bad, Cuba does > have relationships with other European nations. As part of the compromise > between the US

Re: Debian and Cuba

2005-03-26 Thread Sean Kellogg
On Saturday 26 March 2005 01:01 am, Josh Triplett wrote: > To the best of my knowledge (IANAL), there is no issue with someone in > Cuba or another embargoed country downloading Debian from > ftp.xx.debian.org, for values of xx != us or probably a few others. > > Key issue here: it is *not* illegal

Re: Debian and Cuba

2005-03-26 Thread Josh Triplett
Steve Langasek wrote: > On Sat, Mar 26, 2005 at 12:44:11AM -0400, Maykel Moya wrote: >>Today I attended at 'I Taller de Software Libre' in the most important >>university here in Cuba. Some guys there are creating a Distro optimized >>for our country, and they are taking Gentoo as base. > >>In thei

Re: Debian and Cuba

2005-03-25 Thread Steve Langasek
Hi Maykel, On Sat, Mar 26, 2005 at 12:44:11AM -0400, Maykel Moya wrote: > Today I attended at 'I Taller de Software Libre' in the most important > university here in Cuba. Some guys there are creating a Distro optimized > for our country, and they are taking Gentoo as base. > In their talk they s

Debian and Cuba

2005-03-25 Thread Maykel Moya
Today I attended at 'I Taller de Software Libre' in the most important university here in Cuba. Some guys there are creating a Distro optimized for our country, and they are taking Gentoo as base. In their talk they said they didn't choose Debian because of legal restrictions due to the USA embarg