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

[Anssi Hannula]

On Thursday 14 October 2010 11:34:30 Anssi Hannula wrote:
> Anssi Hannula kirjoitti torstai, 14. lokakuuta 2010 11:07:04:
> > Michael Scherer kirjoitti:
> > > 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 :
> > >> > > 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 ?
> > 
> > Well, ibiblio.org contains other distros that contain patented software
> > (like arch and debian), and dvdcss (arch), and more than likely many
> > others:
> > ftp://ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/
> 
> Oops, didn't notice the above posts were about DRM only, not patents...
> anyway, ibiblio contains such distros as well.

BTW, according to 17 U.S.C. Sec. 1201(f) circumvention of protection measures 
is allowed if it is necessary to achieve interoperability with other software.

Of course, this may not apply to CSS...

-- 
Anssi Hannula