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

Thu Oct 14 17:02:48 CEST 2010

On Wednesday 13 October 2010 14:29:14 Marc Paré wrote:
+> 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.
+
+Indeed, as even Debian/Ubuntu do not ship libdvdcss (e.g. arch, gentoo do)..
+
+As for patents, Ubuntu already has 4 mirrors in Canadian universities.
+
+-- 
+Anssi Hannula
+