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

Wed Oct 13 16:49:35 CEST 2010

Le 2010-10-13 10:29, Olivier Méjean a écrit :
+> 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
+>
+
+Bonjour Olivier (from my side of the Atlantic)
+
+ From what I can say from a couple of discussion list maintainers at 
+local universities, they are aware of the laws somewhat and are taking 
+risks (their rationale -- you can always ask for forgiveness after you 
+have done it).
+
+Re: Mint's OEM ISO -- I like this idea!
+
+Marc
+
+