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That doesn't prevent that there is an association that will +</I>><i> own trademark, servers, manage money, etc. and that is a legal +</I>><i> construction that may be liable, in France or in regard to +</I>><i> international laws. +</I> +No one said anything about breaking French laws, in fact what we said is +to follow French law. +There is no such thing as international law, only international treaties +that might have been incorporated into French law. + +><i> Who talks about marketing here? Please stay on topic. Misc is talking +</I>><i> about official representatives, board members liability - not only in +</I>><i> France, but abroad. We're not in Merovingian times where one was +</I>><i> judged according to his original land's law. +</I> +Assuming that a board member get's arrested in the US because Mageia +includes software that is covered by patents is laughable, especially +when that same software is mirrored without problems on US hosts. +I think anyone who is that frightened shouldn't candidate him/herself as +board member. + +><i> As misc said, there is no guarantee, neither definitive rule that the +</I>><i> build system (or parts of it) would be only located in France. +</I> +Moving the BS would only make sense if the countries it moves to +provides a better legal environment, not a worse one, so this argument +doesn't make sense. + +><i> There is no guarantee that board members will always be in France. +</I> +As I said no one is forced to be a board member. + +><i> There is no guarantee that we won't setup affiliate not-for-profit +</I>><i> orgs abroad. +</I>><i> Etc. +</I> +If for this reason Mageia has to be a crippled mediocre product then all +these precautions were a wast of time and efforts too. +There is no point in making a grand, legally sound structure for a +useless product with a fading community. + +><i> We're going to distribute software all around the world in several +</I>><i> ways, potentially, so we must think global here, and not only local. +</I> +True, but take global corporations as example, corporations take +advantage legal evironments offered by specific countries to achieve +their aims, rather than dumb down their products and services so that +they comply with all laws in all countries. + +A successfull Mageia would strive to take advantage of the countries +with the best laws for it's interest rather than plan according to the +lowest common denominator. + +><i> wouldn't have located the association in France. There are other +</I>><i> places far more interesting in this regard. +</I> +And if you want Mageia to be really successful you should take advantage +of those places. + +><i> - what do we _want_ to have in software repositories and _why_? +</I> +Easy, we want the best distro possible, with the best possible out of +the box experience, which for many people includes all necessary codecs +to play every possible media file, to enable transcoding, audio video +production, privacy tools, encryption, etc. + +In other words freedom and ease of use for the user. + +><i> - what are legal constraints that we must deal with +</I>><i> (building/packaging/distributing/using), and how? +</I> +We should strive to take advantage of the best legal environment to make +our targets possible. + +><i> - how can we make this a predictable process for future situations? +</I> +No one can predict the future, laws change all the time so the only way +is to base ourselves on current valid laws and keep frexible to move to +a better legal environment if necessary. + +Opportunities not fear should be the key word here. + +</PRE> + + + +<!--endarticle--> + <HR> + <P><UL> + <!--threads--> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="001215.html">[Mageia-dev] Mageia repository sections, licenses, restrictions, firmware etc +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="001223.html">[Mageia-dev] Mageia repository sections, licenses, restrictions, firmware etc +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#1216">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#1216">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#1216">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#1216">[ 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> |