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

Wed Oct 13 19:31:44 CEST 2010

Le mardi 12 octobre 2010 à 17:53 +0200, Olivier Méjean a écrit :
+
+> > 
+> > == And DVDCSS, etc?
+> 
+> What's in etc ?
+> However, here in France we have a law "Dadvsi" on which the Conseil 
+> Constitutionnel (something like American Suprem Court) has statuted that the 
+> law could not prevent exception of decompilation and the exception of 
+> circumvention of DRM if this is for interoperability. In other words the use 
+> of libdvdcss is allowed for interoperability.
+> So for me, Mageia can come with libdvdcss and other tools for interoperability
+
+And for the people hosting mirrors outside of France ?
+
+Shall we forget them ?
+
+> About codec, you may know that VLC is based in France and hosts some projects 
+> useful for interoperability. Since the start of the project in 1996, i don't 
+> remember VLC being sued for such projects. So let's provide codec by default 
+> with Mageia for a better "user experience" :)
+
+"no one has been sued yet" is not a real argument.
+
+No one sued mplayer developers for distributing binary copyrighted
+codecs. No one sued http://www.dll-files.com/ , despites distributing
+windows dlls. 
+
+Yet, what they do is a clear violation of various copyright treaties.
+
+So no, the fact that no one has been sued is not a reason to do the
+same.
+
+-- 
+Michael Scherer
+
+