Re: Suggested policy (was: Re: Apollon soon in kde-extragear)

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On Fri February 13 2004 18:01, Michael Matz wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Fri, 13 Feb 2004, Waldo Bastian wrote:
> > Well, this isn't about you, I don't care what you do on your own server.
> > But for KDE it is a different matter since KDE is an international
> > project and I think it is important that all KDE participants,
> > regardless of citizenship/residency, can legally work on/with KDE
> > without unnecessary risk of persecution.
>
> Ehm.  Then please stop developing any software immediately.  Or doing
> anything for that matter.  Because the risk of persecution it non-zero in
> every case.  You use totally flawed logic.

Please don't twist my words. I wrote "without unnecessary risk of persecution" 
I didn't write "with non-zero risk of persecution".

> > So if a specific piece of software can not be legally developed in one
> > or more countries then that will deserve some special attention. There
> > is some precedent wrt the US export restrictions on crypto although that
> > was never an issue for KDE.
>
> Not at all.  The past export restrictions just lead to the fact that
> development was happening outside the US without involvement of US people.
> Following your logic we would not develop such inside KDE CVS at all,
> because in one country there was the risk of persecution.

Again, you are twisting my words. I said that it "will deserve some special 
attention", I didn't say "should not be developed inside KDE CVS at all" 

Cheers,
Waldo
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