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

Thu Oct 14 22:27:41 CEST 2010

+>
+> Questions about patents is related to which law applies to Mageia. No answers
+> to which law then no clear policy can be applied.
+>
+> For me, since Mageia.org will lead the project (and will own Mageia
+> trademarks) is located in France, since build system of Mageia will be in
+> France then French law is the law we have to consider for Mageia. Debian runs
+> under SPI organization located in the state of New York, USA, thus is ruled by
+> US Laws.
+>
+>
+
+As we keep going round in circles, do we have anyone on-board with firm 
+knowledge on international patent/licence laws in this domain (lawyer)? 
+Should we just check with the FSF.org and they could give us an opinion 
+on this? Maybe someone from the Mageia core group could check behind the 
+scenes with the FSF?
+
+If anything, the laws of most countries adhere to the notion that "being 
+ignorant of the law is no excuse". If we are to put "questionable" 
+software on different servers, we should maybe get crystal clear facts 
+on the ramifications of doing so. How did the other distros go about 
+making their decisions? I would check with the MAJOR distros, as this is 
+what Mageia is all about. People all over will clamour for our distro. 
+We are going to be a MAJOR and influential distro. So we should behave 
+this way as well when we are setting up our mirror network.
+
+So, it sounds to me, that a core group individual, should, as an 
+official representative of the Mageia project, approach these 
+organisations and FSF to check and to get advice/opinons. Just to make sure.
+
+Marc
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