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Are there any there examples out of there of distros trying to achieve this balance? +</I>><i> Obviously we don't want to follow Ubuntu or ROSA in pretending patents don't exist. +</I> +You forgot that Mandriva didn't have any lawyers to begin with. +And Red Hat had problem with patents, like the 2 issues mentionned there +<A HREF="http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2009/03/red-hat-faces-another-patent-infringement-lawsuit-over-jboss.ars">http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2009/03/red-hat-faces-another-patent-infringement-lawsuit-over-jboss.ars</A> + +If you dig in SEC filling, you would see such problems in the past too. + +Now, users should not fear patents, they would likely not be sued. And +to tell the truth, neither would the association or mirrors, that's not +the issue. This would be a issue however for some type of commercial +users ie a OEM shipping Mageia. + +And if people really want to take users in mind ( and I said enough time +that I personally don't ), people should then keep in mind that most +potential users are not able to install a distribution and that the OEM +road is the only one for them. And this OEM road requires us to be clear +on patents to ease their work as much as possible, hence the split ( and +the split is also valid for non-free, because some non-free package have +restrictive licenses, like "not for commercial use" or stuff like that +). + +And if we want to have people working on the distribution, we need to +make sure they are able to create a commercial offer around it without +too much risk or problem. OEM is such a way, as would various others. + +While I would advocate a removal of tainted ( since I do not care of +users, nor commercial developers ), there is reasons to keep it to ease +the work of others. + +Also, keep in mind that some people would not be aware of the patents +issues if there was no split in the first place, or would not know how +widespread it is. And I think we all agree that we should avoid a second +SCO-like case, this time based on patents, and one of the various step +to prevent that would be to make sure people are aware. + +-- +Michael Scherer + +</PRE> + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +<!--endarticle--> + <HR> + <P><UL> + <!--threads--> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="011373.html">[Mageia-dev] [RFC] Moving various packages/codecs to tainted +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="011185.html">[Mageia-dev] [RFC] Moving various packages/codecs to tainted +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#11213">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#11213">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#11213">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#11213">[ 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> |