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

Wed Oct 13 18:35:13 CEST 2010

Le 2010-10-13 12:14, herman a écrit :
+>> 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.
+>
+> My tuppence worth:
+> Mageia should not distribute non-Free code.  However, Mageia could
+> provide a wizard to enable users to easily install audio and video
+> codecs and utilities from online repositories at Zarb.org.  That way, it
+> is the responsibility of the user to check his own legal status.
+>
+
+However, in this case, Mageia would be complicit in the installation 
+process. IMHO, I think that if the information on how/where to get the 
+information on how to install these missing pieces were available to the 
+user, this would be a safer legal route.
+
+> The Mandriva install system does not make it easy enough.  It requires
+> that a user figure out which codecs and stuff he needs, which is a kind
+> of a black art.  I have done it many times, but it is painful.
+>
+
+Yes, I have always seen this as a communication problem from the 
+Mandriva documentation. However, it did fit the "at arm's length" legal 
+definition of the installation of these pieces of software. That is to 
+mean that Mandriva, in this case, was not complicit in the installation 
+of that particular software. It was clearly a user decision to install them.
+
+Marc
+
+