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

Wed Oct 13 20:06:36 CEST 2010

Le mercredi 13 octobre 2010 19:31:44, Michael Scherer a écrit :
+> 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 ?
+
+It's their own responsability, no one force them, and some in the world take 
+the responsability to host mirrors with questionnable software. Let's give 
+them the liberty to choose as we have the opportunity here in France to ship 
+such software. No one forces several company, university, or other groups to 
+mirror ArchLinux, PCLinuxOS, LinuxMint, PLF
+
+> 
+> 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.
+
+If no one has been sued yet is not a real argument, that's not a reason to 
+live under FUD, to do nothing fearing that maybe in the future there would be 
+a trial.
+
+Olivier
+