<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 8:08 PM, Ralf Corsepius <<a href="mailto:rc040203@freenet.de">rc040203@freenet.de</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div class="im">Tom "spot" Callaway wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> On 05/20/2009 01:24 PM, Ralf Corsepius wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> 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? </blockquote> We actually have this pretty well covered wrt to US laws. :) </blockquote> </div> 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. </blockquote></div> 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... Whether it's over "protect teh [sic] children!", maps that have Israel on them, or flags. Do we really want to start excluding content just because it's illegal in some other jurisdiction? This seems.... slippery. -Chris -- Chris Weyl Ex astris, scientia