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

Thu Oct 14 18:25:35 CEST 2010

Le 2010-10-14 11:02, Anssi Hannula a écrit :
+> 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.
+>
+
+Yes, Ubuntu is riding a wave of popularism at this point. Their product 
+marketing is working quite well. You find/hear of them constantly. It's 
+something we should be doing as soon as we publish our first solid 
+product. The first release is just testing the infrastructure and 
+product so we still have time to organize.
+
+Marc
+
+