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

Tue Oct 12 18:07:08 CEST 2010

On 12 October 2010 17:53, Olivier Méjean <omejean at yahoo.fr> wrote:
+> 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
+>
+
+
+Mageia won't be installed only in France; those patents still apply in
+other countries so not all patent restrictions can be dropped.
+
+-- 
+Ahmad Samir
+