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

[Tux99]

Quote: Ahmad Samir wrote on Tue, 12 October 2010 18:07
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> Mageia won't be installed only in France; those patents still apply in
> other countries so not all patent restrictions can be dropped.

Nobody know the laws of every country in the world.

Just because some software might be covered by patents in a FEW countries,
you want to make users in the rest of the world suffer the inconvenience
of not having proper multimedia support out of the box?

I think Mageia should include as much multimedia codecs as possible, it the
user's responsibility to know the laws of his/her country and if necessary
uninstall anything unlicensed/illegal in his/her country.

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