[OSGeo-Discuss] on Google Code and export restrictions

[Wilfred L. Guerin]

LETS SEE you FIND A BALL IN A PICTURE

And the same for your policy contacts, please.

Restricting freedom of thought of children is a crime against humanity.

I have watched american "policy" thugs rip balls from childrens hands
and  threaten them as if they were a hardened combat warrior while
reciting policy against their innocence and that of a common ball.

THIS is your policy.

(posted in ethical obligation)

DieBold.


On 5/27/08, P Kishor <punkish at eidesis.org> wrote:
> On 5/27/08, Chris Puttick <chris.puttick at thehumanjourney.net> wrote:
>>
>>  ----- "Frank Warmerdam" <warmerdam at pobox.com> wrote:
>>  > Dave Patton wrote:
>>  > > Frank Warmerdam wrote:
>>  > >
>>  > >> I agree that we ought to consider developing a similar policy to
>>  > >> Apache's.  I'll add an agenda item for the next board meeting to
>>  > >> start digging into this.
>>  > >
>>  > > One item for discussion would be what takes place
>>  > > when a project enters incubation. Do they "opt in"
>>  > > to the OSGeo policy? If they don't, are they then
>>  > > excluded from being an OSGeo project? Can they
>>  > > "opt in", and yet maintain their own project
>>  > > infrastructure (website, svn, download links, etc.)
>>  > > on servers in another country, and have access
>>  > > to that infrastructure be subject to policies that
>>  > > may conflict with the OSGeo policy?
>>  >
>>  > Dave,
>>  >
>>  > Projects going through incubation are allowed to maintain their own
>>  > distinct infrastructure, wherever they want for the most part.  But
>>  > they are still board as a project to follow OSGeo policy and obey
>>  > applicable US laws even if their download server (for instance) is
>>  > not in the US.
>>  >
>>  > Best regards,
>>  > --
>>  >
>> ---------------------------------------+--------------------------------------
>>  > I set the clouds in motion - turn up   | Frank Warmerdam,
>>  > warmerdam at pobox.com
>>  > light and sound - activate the windows | http://pobox.com/~warmerdam
>>  > and watch the world go round - Rush    | President OSGeo,
>>  > http://osgeo.org
>>  >
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>>
>> Then I respectfully suggest, insofar as some recent US laws are at a level
>> of paranoia that might prevent some open source software from actually
>> being open. that OSGeo should consider reconstituting itself in a country
>> that is less totalitarian in its attitudes.
>
>
> Easy now. Prefixing "respectfully" to assertions of "paranoia" and
> "totalitarian" to a country whose funding and work gave rise to
> MapServer is not a good strategy. In fact, it would be difficult to
> conceive of open source itself without the contributions of this
> "totalitarian" and "paranoid" country.
>
> National-level security-related policy decisions are not usually made
> with consideration of their impact on every conceivable issue. The key
> is to constructively find a way around it, which many on this list are
> trying to do. I am sure OSGeo is not the first group to face this
> situation.
>
> For starters, I am asking around with my policy-contacts to see what
> light they can shed on this.
>
>
>
>>
>>  Regards
>>
>>  Chris
>>
>>
>>
>>
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