Post #1396209

@Frisk This is not directed personally at you, but I think a lot of tech people have a certain belief about the way they think the law 'should' behave. Laws should be written rationally and logically and if the law leaves something for interpretation then it's a bad law. But in practice laws are written in a somewhat abstract way, and it is up to the courts to decide whether they apply to a certain situation, and they will often try to understand what could 'reasonably' be meant by the text of the law and so on. That means it's not safe to rely on trying to find 'technicalities'. If you think 'well, technically Debian doesn't "produce, licence, or control" the software so it's safe'. It's quite reasonable to decide that Debian has some 'control' over the system (by selecting software for distribution and controlling the infrastructure by which it is distributed). So I think projects like Debian need to assume for their own safety that this applies to them until it's proven otherwise. (Btw: I am also not in the US and would love US problems not to affect the rest of the world.)