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<H1>[Mageia-dev] Mageia repository sections, licenses, restrictions, firmware etc</H1>
<B>Ahmad Samir</B>
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<I>Tue Oct 12 18:07:08 CEST 2010</I>
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<PRE>On 12 October 2010 17:53, Olivier Méjean <<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">omejean at yahoo.fr</A>> wrote:
><i> Le mardi 12 octobre 2010 17:02:38, Anssi Hannula a écrit :
</I>>><i> Hi all!
</I>>><i>
</I>>><i> == What about patents?
</I>><i>
</I>><i> Software Patents are allowed or not according to the country. Here in France,
</I>><i> where Mageia.org, the association is based, the rule is softwares are not
</I>><i> eligible to patent so i would say that there is no need to apply restriction
</I>><i>
</I>>><i>
</I>>><i> == And DVDCSS, etc?
</I>><i>
</I>><i> What's in etc ?
</I>><i> However, here in France we have a law "Dadvsi" on which the Conseil
</I>><i> Constitutionnel (something like American Suprem Court) has statuted that the
</I>><i> law could not prevent exception of decompilation and the exception of
</I>><i> circumvention of DRM if this is for interoperability. In other words the use
</I>><i> of libdvdcss is allowed for interoperability.
</I>><i> So for me, Mageia can come with libdvdcss and other tools for interoperability
</I>><i>
</I>><i> About codec, you may know that VLC is based in France and hosts some projects
</I>><i> useful for interoperability. Since the start of the project in 1996, i don't
</I>><i> remember VLC being sued for such projects. So let's provide codec by default
</I>><i> with Mageia for a better "user experience" :)
</I>><i>
</I>><i> These are my first comments
</I>><i>
</I>><i> Olivier
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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.
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Ahmad Samir
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