Youth Protection: Was Re: Package Maintainers Flags policy

Ralf Corsepius rc040203 at freenet.de
Thu May 21 05:24:00 UTC 2009


Chris Weyl wrote:
> On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 8:08 PM, Ralf Corsepius <rc040203 at freenet.de> wrote:
> 
>> Tom "spot" Callaway wrote:
>>
>>> On 05/20/2009 01:24 PM, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
>>>
>>>> Well, I am sure, FESCO will now will initiate the necessary measures to
>>>> initiate the "youth protection" certification processes, whose absence
>>>> so far legally threads Fedora vendors/distributors from different
>>>> countries around the globe?
>>>>
>>> We actually have this pretty well covered wrt to US laws. :)
>>>
>> We are talking about the "national laws" threating
>> users/vendors/re-distributors in a particular country.
>>
>> Wrt. "youth protection", US laws are widely irrelevant. It's similar to US
>> "alcohol/tobacco/drug laws", "weapon laws", "medication laws", "car part
>> regulations". At least in my country (Germany), they are widely irrelevant.
>>
>> Relevant wrt. "youth protection" on SW in Germany are computer games. Very
>> oversimplified, in general, it's illegal in Germany to make
>> "non-USK-certified/rated" computer games available to people below certain
>> age, rsp. in some cases, to distribute them at all.
>>
> 
> Fedora, as a project of a US corporation, is liable for violation of the
> laws of the State of North Carolina and of the United States.  We're not
> liable for violation of the laws of any other jurisdiction... 
ACK.

> Whether it's
> over "protect teh [sic] children!", maps that have Israel on them, or flags.
ACK, nor Tibet, or Nagorno-Karabakh, Kosovo, FYR of Macedonia, Cuba, 
Palestina, just to mention a few other controversial countries ....

> Do we really want to start excluding content just because it's illegal in
> some other jurisdiction?  This seems.... slippery.
ACK.

I am simply trying to demonstrate the impact of the can of worms Spot, 
FESCO and RH-Legal have opened. If they were consequent, they now _will 
have to take care_ with this kind of issues, world-wide!

Ralf




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