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

Tue Oct 12 22:37:37 CEST 2010

On Tuesday 12 October 2010 17:53:54 Olivier Méjean 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 ?
+
+libaacs for example, for AACS in Bluray.
+
+> 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
+-- 
+Anssi Hannula
+