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

[Anssi Hannula]

On Wednesday 13 October 2010 14:29:14 Marc Paré wrote:
> Le 2010-10-13 14:23, Michael Scherer a écrit :
> > 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 ?
> 
> I was actually going to approach a university in Canada this week about
> mirroring but I think I will wait till this is sorted out. I don't
> believe I could convince them if they read this thread. They would most
> definitely have second thoughts.

Indeed, as even Debian/Ubuntu do not ship libdvdcss (e.g. arch, gentoo do)..

As for patents, Ubuntu already has 4 mirrors in Canadian universities.

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Anssi Hannula