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

[Ahmad Samir]

On 12 October 2010 18:11, Olivier Méjean <omejean at yahoo.fr> wrote:
> 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
>

I said "not all patent restrictions can be dropped"; it's not a
lift-all-restrictions-and-hope-it-works-out sort of deal here :)

Not all patents are enforceable in a court of law, however some of them are.

-- 
Ahmad Samir