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

Tue Oct 12 18:14:42 CEST 2010

On 12 October 2010 18:11, Olivier Méjean <omejean at yahoo.fr> wrote:
+> 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
+>
+
+I said "not all patent restrictions can be dropped"; it's not a
+lift-all-restrictions-and-hope-it-works-out sort of deal here :)
+
+Not all patents are enforceable in a court of law, however some of them are.
+
+-- 
+Ahmad Samir
+