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

Wed Oct 13 06:50:02 CEST 2010

Le 2010-10-12 22:04, Tux99 a écrit :
+>
+>
+> Marc, just as a further point to reflect on:
+> there are countries in the world were encryption is illegal or severely
+> restricted.
+>
+> According to your logic that would mean we can't include ssh, openssl, pgp,
+> and even https support in any browser.
+> Does that seems reasonable to you?
+>
+> You need to face it, it would be impossible to make a distro that is legal
+> in every country of the world and at the same time is of any use to the
+> users.
+> Therefore I don't see the need why we should comply with US patent laws
+> when we don't comply with for example Chinese encryption laws.
+>
+> The only reasonable choice is do what every other distro does:
+> comply with the laws of the country where the distro is legally based in,
+> in this case France.
+>
+> Regardless of all that, it is ALWAYS the user's (not the distro makers)
+> responsibility to comply with local laws of where the distro is being
+> installed/used.
+>
+
+All of your points are exactly what I am trying to point out and even 
+reinforce my concerns. These are all true. This is why, in my opinion, 
+the Mageia distro should not be installing all of these controversial 
+software packages by default. These should be added on after the Mageia 
+official distro and the user would thereafter install further software 
+packages that he/she wished to have to make the distro work as he/she 
+wished. This would then remove that layer of liability from the Mageia 
+project group. In my opinion, Mageia should be wary in wanting to 
+install a fully functioning distro if this means using software packages 
+that may get it into trouble (Mageia itself). Let the user then assume 
+that responsibility/liability. This is where, I consider the "easy 
+urpmi" served its purpose well. It installed repos where the available 
+software that most users would need was made available, but this again 
+was by user choice.
+
+Cheers
+
+Marc
+
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