[Mageia-discuss] Hauppauge WinTV PVR-250

Wed Jun 8 05:14:13 CEST 2011

On 6/7/11, Michael Scherer <misc at zarb.org> wrote:
+
+>
+> They can blame Mageia as much as they want, that will not change the
+> international copyright treaties.
+>
+>
+>> The question is how will Mageia balance the need for "just works" with
+>> the desire to honor copyrights and engage only in legal software
+>> distribution? This is made more complex because those rights and
+>> copyright laws are not equal everywhere in the world.
+>
+> So if the question is :
+> "will mageia do something clearly illegal in France to please users", I
+> think that I can safely answer "no".
+>
+> But if you are not satisfied with the answer and my reasoning, feel free
+> to ask to the council or the board for a precision. Or ask to a lawyer.
+>
+> Even Canonical did clean the firmware package, as you can see if you
+> follow the url given by the blog post I mentioned.
+>
+
+
+You miss my point.
+
+We are in agreement as to the legality and what should be done with
+the software. I'm not asking Mageia to do anything illegal.
+
+You imply that you don't care if customers wrongly blame Mageia. That
+seems to be a counterproductive attitude about customer service and
+the success of Mageia. Certainly that can't be true?
+
+-- 
+Hoyt
+