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<H1>[Mageia-dev] Mageia repository sections, licenses, restrictions, firmware etc</H1>
<B>Lucien-Henry Horvath</B>
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<I>Tue Oct 12 19:47:02 CEST 2010</I>
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<PRE> Le 12/10/2010 19:31, Marc Paré a écrit :
><i> Hi Lucien, this is not directed to you but to the discussion on this
</I>><i> thread:
</I>No problem for me ;-)
><i> There was actually nothing wrong with the Mandriva treatment of repos.
</I>><i> It clearly satisfied everyone's expectation of their installation. It
</I>><i> became a matter of user choice. By installing, by default,
</I>><i> non-licensed software you are not giving the user the choice. You are
</I>><i> then targeting a group of users who can install without legal
</I>><i> consequence. If Mageia.ca or Mageia.us etc. decided to organize, then
</I>><i> as entities, they would then become liable for the publication of
</I>><i> illegal software. In Canada, they are a little more lenient than in
</I>><i> the US. I cannot imagine anyone organising such a group in the US
</I>><i> where they would accept liability for this.
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</I>><i> If there is a choice of installing non-licensed software, then it
</I>><i> should be done at the user level and not at the Mageia level.
</I>><i> Non-licensed software will not be accepted by any educational
</I>><i> establishments, business, government, associations ...
</I>><i>
</I>><i> The safest route is to offer FOSS software (they are well known and
</I>><i> many have had their code audited) and leave the "fringe" softs on a
</I>><i> repo that is left to the users' choice as install.
</I>><i>
</I>><i> I thought that PLF were on board with the Mageia project. Does anyone
</I>><i> know?
</I>><i>
</I>><i> Marc
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And why don't we affect specific packages to the country exactly like
the localization is affected ? In France too the default install is
certainly the choice of the educational establishments ... but in french
FR_FR, not in EN_US.
So, why not a pre-selection of certain kind of packages in the same time
of selection of the country in the install menu ?
Suggestion : (don't beat me please) :
Actually, we have team for translating the texts ... why not somes teams
for choose between "free or not free" packages in localized variation of
Mageia.
I know PLF (without that, no Mandriva on my PC), but I think that
waiting the PLF adaptation, or have garbage free packages after PLF
installation is not optimal.
Own remark : (No, no, don't beat ...)
Mageia is new, young, dynamical ... I suggest to use this situation for
don't go in the same ways than the others ... With "free + PLF", we
don't inovate in regard of the existing Mandriva / OpenSuse / Ubuntu /
Slac/ etc ... etc ... we only repeat the old schema. Why do a new distro
also ?
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