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

Wed Oct 13 20:34:15 CEST 2010

Le mercredi 13 octobre 2010 à 14:29 -0400, Marc Paré a écrit :
+> 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.
+
+Well, then you can simply be clear with them and ask them to see their
+boss/lawyers/whatever who can decide. 
+
+After all, I do not see why no one directly asked to mirror admins
+first.
+
+-- 
+Michael Scherer
+
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