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

Tue Oct 12 21:14:28 CEST 2010

Le mardi 12 octobre 2010 20:37:07, Wolfgang Bornath a écrit :
+> 2010/10/12 Olivier Méjean <omejean at yahoo.fr>:
+> > Free and non-free is pretty simple, once we have agreed on what's free
+> > and what's not !
+> > 
+> > For example, Lame is a free software (GPL) but i may not be free
+> > according to patents if software patents are legal and it depends on the
+> > country.
+> 
+> Yes, but there is a third group: software which may be illegal to be
+> used in certain countries. This has nothing to do with free or
+> non-free. For example, friends of the movie industry claim that
+> libdvdcss is illegal in Germany, other legal experts claim just the
+> opposite. This issue never went to court because IMO the movie
+> industry does not want to risk a court decision against them (like in
+> France). So they keep publishing FUD about this and it's up to the
+> user to decide which side he thinks is right - not a good idea in a
+> legal issue.
+
+There have been a trial in Finland http://www.turre.com/2007/05/finnish-court-
+rules-css-protection-used-in-dvds-ineffective where the court declare that css 
+protection was ineffective where european legislation EUCD says that it was 
+illegal to circumvent effective protection. 
+
+In France a group called stopdrm who wanted to test our judicial system about 
+the question of DRM, there was no trial since the attorney closed the case (in 
+french "classé sans suite")
+
+So i think we can say for European Union that libdvdcss is legal (i take the 
+risk to say it !)
+
+Maybe a workaround would be to use timezone to determine the country and for 
+some country disable the installation of codec and other nice things.
+
+Olivier
+