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<H1>[Mageia-dev] Mageia repository sections, licenses, restrictions, firmware etc</H1>
<B>Anssi Hannula</B>
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<I>Tue Oct 12 22:37:37 CEST 2010</I>
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<PRE>On Tuesday 12 October 2010 17:53:54 Olivier Méjean 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
</I>><i> France, where Mageia.org, the association is based, the rule is softwares
</I>><i> are not eligible to patent so i would say that there is no need to apply
</I>><i> restriction
</I>><i>
</I>><i> > == And DVDCSS, etc?
</I>><i>
</I>><i> What's in etc ?
</I>
libaacs for example, for AACS in Bluray.
><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
</I>><i> 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 provide
</I>><i> 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>--
Anssi Hannula
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