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

Fri Oct 15 13:30:35 CEST 2010

Michael scherer kirjoitti perjantai, 15. lokakuuta 2010 02:18:37:
+> On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 09:57:03PM +0200, Olivier Méjean wrote:
+> > 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.
+> 
+> Since the only people who will have issue with this are the president ( aka
+> Anne ) and the people who distribute this ( ie mirrors admins ), I think
+> we should ask them and follow their opinions, and only theirs. Because
+> we can speak of "we have no problem", we will have nothing what ever we do,
+> because we are likely not liable. Anne and mirrors owners are. So their
+> words is what does count.
+
+Seems sensible to ask the mirror owners. It is possible some of them have not 
+been aware of the problem at all, so I think we should make sure they 
+understand that Ubuntu, Debian, Arch, etc. also contain patented technologies 
+(to avoid the situation where they are willing to mirror Ubuntu/Debian/Arch 
+but not allow patented software in Mageia, just because the other 
+distributions didn't notify them of the issue; if they don't want to mirror 
+Mageia if it contained patent-encumbered software, they really shouldn't be 
+mirroring those other distributions either).
+
+-- 
+Anssi Hannula
+