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

Tue Oct 12 17:53:54 CEST 2010

Le mardi 12 octobre 2010 17:02:38, Anssi Hannula a écrit :
+> Hi all!
+> 
+> == What about patents?
+
+Software Patents are allowed or not according to the country. Here in France, 
+where Mageia.org, the association is based, the rule is softwares are not 
+eligible to patent so i would say that there is no need to apply restriction
+
+> 
+> == 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
+
+About codec, you may know that VLC is based in France and hosts some projects 
+useful for interoperability. Since the start of the project in 1996, i don't 
+remember VLC being sued for such projects. So let's provide codec by default 
+with Mageia for a better "user experience" :)
+
+These are my first comments
+
+Olivier
+