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

Wed Oct 13 16:29:24 CEST 2010

Le mercredi 13 octobre 2010 15:44:27, Sinner from the Prairy a écrit :
+> Marc Paré wrote:
+> > I think pre-selected Country installs would just be too hard to
+> > coordinate, laws change. Free and non-free is pretty simple.
+> > 
+> > Marc
+> 
+> +1
+> 
+> My thoughts exactly.
+> 
+> Salut,
+> Sinner
+
+Linux Mint provides an ISO without codec
+http://www.linuxmint.com/download.php
+(btw some good ideas about ISO, like an OEM ISO). It nicely named 
+"linuxmint-9-gnome-usa-japan-i386.iso" which just focus on 2 countries ;-)
+
+What's just funny is that we looking for mirrors of Linux Mint, there : 
+http://linuxmint.com/mirrors.php several are located in USA, you can find a 
+company, yellowfiber located in Virginia (if i am not wrong, VA = Virginia) 
+with a legal contact in California, you can also find a mirror located in the 
+University of Tennessee, and both (and others in USA) provide all ISOs 
+(yellowfiber also provides a mirror for ArchLinux which contains libdvdcss)
+
+So companies, universities in USA provide softwares that we are here 
+discussing if we can ship or not (and i don't want to insist, but Mageia.org 
+is not located in USA). Maybe they are more aware of laws than we are, or are 
+they taking too much risks ?
+
+Olivier
+