French Government Lobbied to Ban Free Software

[Rui Miguel Silva Seabra]

On Fri, 2005-12-02 at 08:13 +0000, Sam Liddicott wrote:
> Well I propose that software includes calls to validation scripts to
> implement such measures, and that such scripts be specifiable by
> environment variables in order to upgrade such scripts to provide the
> er.. latest enforcement that is avilable.
> 
> That would meet the requirements of the law? Which seemed to suggest
> that ir was lack of control that was objectionable.

Can you modify the variable to use a script that always returns true?
Yes.

Then that strategy is likely illegal under that law.

Rui
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