[liberationtech] Fedora project and software "likely to be illegal or unlawful"

[Don Marti]

The Fedora project has voted to add this to its
guidelines for software that it's willing to include:

  "Where, objectively speaking, the package has
  essentially no useful foreseeable purposes other
  than those that are highly likely to be illegal
  or unlawful in one or more major jurisdictions
  in which Fedora is distributed or used, such that
  distributors of Fedora will face heightened legal
  risk if Fedora were to include the package, then
  the Fedora Project Board has discretion to deny
  inclusion of the package for that reason alone."

http://lwn.net/Articles/414438/

Of course, this could be interpreted to include
circumvention software.  But is it even possible
to have policies that say it's OK to distribute
something that's illegal in "the people's republic
of unfreedonia" but not distribute something that's
illegal in the USA?

-- 
Don Marti                    
http://zgp.org/~dmarti/
dmarti at zgp.org