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

Tue Oct 12 19:47:02 CEST 2010

  Le 12/10/2010 19:31, Marc Paré a écrit :
+> Hi Lucien, this is not directed to you but to the discussion on this 
+> thread:
+No problem for me ;-)
+> There was actually nothing wrong with the Mandriva treatment of repos. 
+> It clearly satisfied everyone's expectation of their installation. It 
+> became a matter of user choice. By installing, by default, 
+> non-licensed software you are not giving the user the choice. You are 
+> then targeting a group of users who can install without legal 
+> consequence. If Mageia.ca or Mageia.us etc. decided to organize, then 
+> as entities, they would then become liable for the publication of 
+> illegal software. In Canada, they are a little more lenient than in 
+> the US. I cannot imagine anyone organising such a group in the US 
+> where they would accept liability for this.
+>
+> If there is a choice of installing non-licensed software, then it 
+> should be done at the user level and not at the Mageia level. 
+> Non-licensed software will not be accepted by any educational 
+> establishments, business, government, associations ...
+>
+> The safest route is to offer FOSS software (they are well known and 
+> many have had their code audited) and leave the "fringe" softs on a 
+> repo that is left to the users' choice as install.
+>
+> I thought that PLF were on board with the Mageia project. Does anyone 
+> know?
+>
+> Marc
+
+And why don't we affect specific packages to the country exactly like 
+the localization is affected ? In France too the default install is 
+certainly the choice of the educational establishments ... but in french 
+FR_FR, not in EN_US.
+So, why not a pre-selection of certain kind of packages in the same time 
+of selection of the country in the install menu ?
+
+Suggestion : (don't beat me please) :
+
+Actually, we have team for translating the texts ... why not somes teams 
+for choose between "free or not free" packages in localized variation of 
+Mageia.
+I know PLF (without that, no Mandriva on my PC), but I think that 
+waiting the PLF adaptation, or have garbage free packages after PLF 
+installation is not optimal.
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+Own remark : (No, no, don't beat ...)
+
+Mageia is new, young, dynamical ... I suggest to use this situation for 
+don't go in the same ways than the others ... With "free + PLF", we 
+don't inovate in regard of the existing Mandriva / OpenSuse / Ubuntu / 
+Slac/ etc ... etc ... we only repeat the old schema. Why do a new distro 
+also ?
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