Re: CD images and US export laws

[Robert Bihlmeyer <robbe@orcus.priv.at>]

Steve Robbins <steve@nyongwa.montreal.qc.ca> writes:

> On Wed, 24 May 2000, Mike Bilow wrote:
> 
> > This is exactly what I do NOT want.  Calling the image "US domestic" would
> > lead to CD makers in the US incorrectly pressing that version.  No one
> > really wants to press the US-exportable version at all!  
> 
> Ah.  So why bother creating one?  If I were in charge (which I'm not) I'd
> just make a single CD image.  It would have to be hosted outside the US,
> of course.

cdimage.debian.org is in the UK.

cdimage mirrors inside the US instead of directing non-US downloaders
to the free-for-export version, could just as well point them to a
non-US mirror.

> Any CD vendor outside the US could sell it anywhere they like.
> Any vendor inside the US could sell it to the domestic market.

Would they be pissed off at that? I don't think so. They could only
sell half-the-product, anyway.

-- 
Robbe