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

Wed Oct 13 20:29:14 CEST 2010

Le 2010-10-13 14:23, Michael Scherer a écrit :
+> 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 ?
+>
+
+I was actually going to approach a university in Canada this week about 
+mirroring but I think I will wait till this is sorted out. I don't 
+believe I could convince them if they read this thread. They would most 
+definitely have second thoughts.
+
+Marc
+
+