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

[Anssi Hannula]

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 :
> >> > > > == 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 ?
> 
> 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.

-- 
Anssi Hannula