[Mageia-dev] Mageia repository sections, licenses, restrictions, firmware etc

Olivier Méjean omejean at yahoo.fr
Tue Oct 12 20:18:49 CEST 2010


Le mardi 12 octobre 2010 20:00:29, Marc Paré a écrit :
> > 
> > Mageia is new, young, dynamical ... I suggest to use this situation for
> > don't go in the same ways than the others ... With "free + PLF", we
> > don't inovate in regard of the existing Mandriva / OpenSuse / Ubuntu /
> > Slac/ etc ... etc ... we only repeat the old schema. Why do a new distro
> > also ?
> 
> I think pre-selected Country installs would just be too hard to
> coordinate, laws change. Free and non-free is pretty simple.
> 
> Marc

Free and non-free is pretty simple, once we have agreed on what's free and 
what's not !

For example, Lame is a free software (GPL) but i may not be free according to 
patents if software patents are legal and it depends on the country.

Olivier


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