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

Michael Scherer misc at zarb.org
Wed Oct 13 20:23:10 CEST 2010


Le mercredi 13 octobre 2010 à 20:06 +0200, Olivier Méjean a écrit :
> Le mercredi 13 octobre 2010 19:31:44, Michael Scherer a écrit :
> > Le mardi 12 octobre 2010 à 17:53 +0200, Olivier Méjean a écrit :
> > > > == And DVDCSS, etc?
> > > 
> > > What's in etc ?
> > > However, here in France we have a law "Dadvsi" on which the Conseil
> > > Constitutionnel (something like American Suprem Court) has statuted that
> > > the law could not prevent exception of decompilation and the exception
> > > of circumvention of DRM if this is for interoperability. In other words
> > > the use of libdvdcss is allowed for interoperability.
> > > So for me, Mageia can come with libdvdcss and other tools for
> > > interoperability
> > 
> > And for the people hosting mirrors outside of France ?
> 
> It's their own responsability, no one force them, and some in the world take 
> the responsability to host mirrors with questionnable software. Let's give 
> them the liberty to choose as we have the opportunity here in France to ship 
> such software. No one forces several company, university, or other groups to 
> mirror ArchLinux, PCLinuxOS, LinuxMint, PLF

So I assume that you volunteer to find another Tier 1 mirror to replace
ibiblio.org ? 

-- 
Michael Scherer



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