Gregory Maxwell wrote:
Yes. No argument that we currently distribute works that we could not distribute if we attempted to follow all laws, but your claim was that the project would fail because "nearly nothing is permissible to distribute" under a policy of expansive conformance.
It depends on what you mean by "expansive conformance". Do you mean solely conformance with copyright laws? This discussion started with a mention of laws about taking pictures of various Royal properties, which is an extra-copyright restriction. You seem to favor us honoring those sorts of restrictions as well. But there are *quite* a lot of those, if we want to get into expansive conformance. In some countries, it's illegal to publish material that impugns the honor of a president, king, revered religious figure, or some other such thing. Should we ignore these laws? If so, how do we distinguish between the ones we follow (apparently UK ones) and the ones we don't?
-Mark