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

Mon Oct 18 02:25:59 CEST 2010

* Olivier Méjean (omejean at yahoo.fr) wrote:
+> So is Mageia a community project or not ?
+> Then when we will talk about Marketing stuff we will follow only marketing 
+> group opinions ?
+> 
+> Of course their views count, but there is a difference between the 
+> responsability of Mageia association that must comply with French Laws and 
+> mirrors admins that must comply with the laws of the country the mirror is 
+> located. OpenBSD project is located in Canada to avoid some US law about 
+> restriction for export (meanwhile for example Red Hat has a policy for its 
+> employees not to answer by IRC to demand from an user located in countries 
+> that are under export restriction due to US law)
+> 
+> If the structure of the repos need to be adapted so one part can be not 
+> mirrored in certain countries that could be a solution (let's call it export-
+> restriction)
+> 
+> I do quite accept that Fedora, OpenSuse, Debian comply with US Law since there 
+> are located in the USA, thus accepting their policy about software patents. I 
+> would like that the same occurs for Mageia that is located in France.
+
+Since I am in charge of mirrors management I think I have some thing to
+said about this:
+
+- adapting the mirror structure is not so easy. There is technical part
+  to think, especially how do you plan in practice to separate packages
+with legal issues and make this understable by someone who just
+want to create a mirror without having specific knowledge about internal
+Mageia working ? Mirrors admin don't know all the distribution they host,
+they just know rsync command line.
+
+- We don't choose the location of mirrors, we can only accept help from
+  mirror admin accepting to host us. According the expected size of our
+tree, I do think it is on our side to do something except if you plan to
+deny us to be distributed by half the only mirror sable to host such
+tree.
+
+Ho ! I hadn't time to announce it yet but Ibiblio agreed to be Tier1,
+bad news, they are located in USA.
+
+Finally, since I am the admin of our first Tier1, I'd really like if the
+Mageia project could avoid to me some discuss with ou network administrators,
+or worst, to cops.
+
+-- 
+
+Olivier Thauvin
+CNRS  -  LATMOS
+♖ ♘ ♗ ♕ ♔ ♗ ♘ ♖
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