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

[Olivier Méjean]

Le mardi 12 octobre 2010 18:07:08, Ahmad Samir a écrit :
> On 12 October 2010 17:53, Olivier Méjean <omejean at yahoo.fr> wrote:
> > Le mardi 12 octobre 2010 17:02:38, Anssi Hannula a écrit :
> >> Hi all!
> >> 
> >> == What about patents?
> > 
> > Software Patents are allowed or not according to the country. Here in
> > France, where Mageia.org, the association is based, the rule is
> > softwares are not eligible to patent so i would say that there is no
> > need to apply restriction
> > 
> >> == 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
> > 
> > About codec, you may know that VLC is based in France and hosts some
> > projects useful for interoperability. Since the start of the project in
> > 1996, i don't remember VLC being sued for such projects. So let's
> > provide codec by default with Mageia for a better "user experience" :)
> > 
> > These are my first comments
> > 
> > Olivier
> 
> Mageia won't be installed only in France; those patents still apply in
> other countries so not all patent restrictions can be dropped.

And going that way you will have to drop each software that will break a law 
in a country ...

Olivier