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

Tue Oct 12 19:18:58 CEST 2010

+
+Quote: Ahmad Samir wrote on Tue, 12 October 2010 19:08
+> 
+> How do you think packages were done in Mandriva (and other distros)
+> all those years?
+
+Mandriva was a commercial company with ambitions to sell it's products
+commercial all over the world, that's a completely different situation to
+Mageia.
+
+> Sure, Mageia won't be held responsible, only the users deploying it in
+> other countries where those laws apply. You also have to bear in mind
+> school/university labs, companies.. etc.
+
+Like I suggested earlier, during install there can be an option to
+include/exclude well known problematic packages.
+
+And yes, end users will ALWAYS be responsible for what they install/use,
+regardless what Mageia includes in the default install, Mageia (or anyone
+else) cannot take that responsibility away from the user.
+Besides that I have never heard of a private person being sued for using
+unlicensed  patented codecs, not even in the US and most US Linux users
+install them anyway from plf (or similar repos of other distros).
+
+Regardless of that no company/school/university will just do a default
+install (regardless if we include plf packages), they will always have to
+do their own custom selection based on their on internal regulations
+anyway (in addition to local laws).
+
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