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| author | Nicolas Vigier <boklm@mageia.org> | 2013-04-14 13:46:12 +0000 |
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OpenBSD project is located in Canada to avoid some US law about +</I>><i> restriction for export (meanwhile for example Red Hat has a policy for its +</I>><i> employees not to answer by IRC to demand from an user located in countries +</I>><i> that are under export restriction due to US law) +</I>><i> +</I>><i> If the structure of the repos need to be adapted so one part can be not +</I>><i> mirrored in certain countries that could be a solution (let's call it export- +</I>><i> restriction) +</I>><i> +</I>><i> I do quite accept that Fedora, OpenSuse, Debian comply with US Law since there +</I>><i> are located in the USA, thus accepting their policy about software patents. I +</I>><i> would like that the same occurs for Mageia that is located in France. +</I> +Since I am in charge of mirrors management I think I have some thing to +said about this: + +- adapting the mirror structure is not so easy. There is technical part + to think, especially how do you plan in practice to separate packages +with legal issues and make this understable by someone who just +want to create a mirror without having specific knowledge about internal +Mageia working ? Mirrors admin don't know all the distribution they host, +they just know rsync command line. + +- We don't choose the location of mirrors, we can only accept help from + mirror admin accepting to host us. According the expected size of our +tree, I do think it is on our side to do something except if you plan to +deny us to be distributed by half the only mirror sable to host such +tree. + +Ho ! I hadn't time to announce it yet but Ibiblio agreed to be Tier1, +bad news, they are located in USA. + +Finally, since I am the admin of our first Tier1, I'd really like if the +Mageia project could avoid to me some discuss with ou network administrators, +or worst, to cops. + +-- + +Olivier Thauvin +CNRS - LATMOS +♖ ♘ ♗ ♕ ♔ ♗ ♘ ♖ +-------------- next part -------------- +A non-text attachment was scrubbed... +Name: not available +Type: application/pgp-signature +Size: 197 bytes +Desc: not available +URL: </pipermail/mageia-dev/attachments/20101018/566f38c5/attachment.asc> +</PRE> + + + + + + + + + + + + +<!--endarticle--> + <HR> + <P><UL> + <!--threads--> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="001256.html">[Mageia-dev] Mageia repository sections, licenses, restrictions, firmware etc +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="001258.html">[Mageia-dev] How will be the realese cycle? +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#1257">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#1257">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#1257">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#1257">[ author ]</a> + </LI> + </UL> + +<hr> +<a href="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">More information about the Mageia-dev +mailing list</a><br> +</body></html> |