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These are all true. This is why, in my opinion, +</I>><i> >> the Mageia distro should not be installing all of these controversial +</I>><i> >> software packages by default. +</I>><i> > +</I>><i> > Are you seriously suggesting Mageia should produce a distro without ssh, +</I>><i> > openssl and even with all browsers stripped of https support? +</I>><i> > +</I>><i> > I can imagine how popular that would be with the majority of users... +</I>><i> > +</I>><i> >> This would then remove that layer of liability from the Mageia +</I>><i> >> project group. In my opinion, Mageia should be wary in wanting to +</I>><i> >> install a fully functioning distro if this means using software packages +</I>><i> >> that may get it into trouble (Mageia itself). +</I>><i> > +</I>><i> > But here lies the mistake in your reasoning. Mageia doesn't have to +</I>><i> > exclude all those packages, since the only liability Mageia has, is +</I>><i> > towards the French laws. +</I>><i> > +</I>><i> > So the sensible choice is to base the choice of packages to include on +</I>><i> > French law. It is up to the user to make sure he/she only installs and +</I>><i> > uses packages that are legal in his/her country. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> Obviously running in circles here, I guess we both have our opinions and +</I>><i> we let it rest at that. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> Marc +</I> +There is no solution. + +However, i would like to emphasis that VLC project - <A HREF="http://www.videolan.org/">http://www.videolan.org/</A> +- is based in France - and i don't remember VLC being sued and found guilty of +patent infringement. Anyone can download VLC even from website located in USA +(on cnet.com for example). VLC is not a small project so i guess if there were +good reasons to sue the project for patent infringement it would have been +done. VLC also hosts libdvdcss project (among other surely covered with +patents in USA) + +Archlinux which provides libdvdcss have at least one mirror located in the +USA, as plf have also at least one mirror there. + +So my feeling is that we should distribute codecs to access multimedia +contents out-of-box (provided that the software are free - libre - is there +are not free, that's for non-free media) + +Olivier +</PRE> + + + + +<!--endarticle--> + <HR> + <P><UL> + <!--threads--> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="001124.html">[Mageia-dev] Mageia repository sections, licenses, restrictions, firmware etc +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="001135.html">[Mageia-dev] Mageia repository sections, licenses, restrictions, firmware etc +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#1125">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#1125">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#1125">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#1125">[ 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> |