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

Wed Oct 13 17:04:51 CEST 2010

Le 2010-10-13 10:58, Olivier Méjean a écrit :
+> Le mercredi 13 octobre 2010 16:49:35, Marc Paré a écrit :
+>> 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
+>
+> So they take risk being aware (and also being in USA), i then think Mageia
+> should provide codec and related tools (moreover being outside of USA) since
+> risk is much lower (and we can also produce an ISO without those codecs)
+>
+> Olivier
+>
+
+Sorry, I am speaking from a Canadian perspective. That may make a 
+difference.
+
+Marc
+
+