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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 18:14:42 CEST 2010</I>
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<PRE>On 12 October 2010 18:11, Olivier Méjean <<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">omejean at yahoo.fr</A>> wrote:
><i> Le mardi 12 octobre 2010 18:07:08, Ahmad Samir a écrit :
</I>>><i> 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>>><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
</I>>><i> > France, where Mageia.org, the association is based, the rule is
</I>>><i> > softwares are not eligible to patent so i would say that there is no
</I>>><i> > need to apply restriction
</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
</I>>><i> > the law could not prevent exception of decompilation and the exception
</I>>><i> > of circumvention of DRM if this is for interoperability. In other words
</I>>><i> > the use of libdvdcss is allowed for interoperability.
</I>>><i> > So for me, Mageia can come with libdvdcss and other tools for
</I>>><i> > interoperability
</I>>><i> >
</I>>><i> > About codec, you may know that VLC is based in France and hosts some
</I>>><i> > projects useful for interoperability. Since the start of the project in
</I>>><i> > 1996, i don't remember VLC being sued for such projects. So let's
</I>>><i> > provide codec by default with Mageia for a better "user experience" :)
</I>>><i> >
</I>>><i> > These are my first comments
</I>>><i> >
</I>>><i> > Olivier
</I>>><i>
</I>>><i> Mageia won't be installed only in France; those patents still apply in
</I>>><i> other countries so not all patent restrictions can be dropped.
</I>><i>
</I>><i> And going that way you will have to drop each software that will break a law
</I>><i> in a country ...
</I>><i>
</I>><i> Olivier
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I said "not all patent restrictions can be dropped"; it's not a
lift-all-restrictions-and-hope-it-works-out sort of deal here :)
Not all patents are enforceable in a court of law, however some of them are.
--
Ahmad Samir
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