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

Wed Oct 13 20:23:10 CEST 2010

Le mercredi 13 octobre 2010 à 20:06 +0200, Olivier Méjean a écrit :
+> 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
+
+So I assume that you volunteer to find another Tier 1 mirror to replace
+ibiblio.org ? 
+
+-- 
+Michael Scherer
+
+