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

Tue Oct 12 18:11:52 CEST 2010

Le mardi 12 octobre 2010 18:07:08, Ahmad Samir a écrit :
+> 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.
+
+And going that way you will have to drop each software that will break a law 
+in a country ...
+
+Olivier
+