[Mageia-dev] Mirror layout

Fri Dec 10 16:45:50 CET 2010

On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 16:35, Wolfgang Bornath <molch.b at googlemail.com> wrote:
+> Isn't this what this whole discussion is about? There ARE legal issues
+> with some software users regard as "must have". Now, how do you avoid
+> these issues?
+
+To summarize, strategies:
+ 1. ignore the issues and see what happens;
+ 2. ignore the less significant ones;
+ 3. get to know each of these and manage case by case
+ 4. other?
+
+and factor whenever possible and see what happens, update, repeat.
+
+1. and 2. are more radical, but are some sort of trial-and-error, risk
+management strategies. Ok... looking at it this way won't lead us
+further I guess.
+
+Let's try this: what if we consider, at first, that software patents
+were a non-issue? (that is, we just consider they are all invalid as
+such).
+
+How would this change/simplify the problem?
+ - for packaging/shipping the distribution
+ - for mirroring it
+ - for using it.
+
+(please don't go "but there _are_ software patents" for now)
+
+
+Romain
+