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<H1>[Mageia-dev] Mageia repository sections, licenses, restrictions, firmware etc</H1>
<B>Olivier Méjean</B>
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<I>Wed Oct 13 16:58:50 CEST 2010</I>
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<PRE>Le mercredi 13 octobre 2010 16:49:35, Marc Paré a écrit :
><i> Le 2010-10-13 10:29, Olivier Méjean a écrit :
</I>><i> > Le mercredi 13 octobre 2010 15:44:27, Sinner from the Prairy a écrit :
</I>><i> >> Marc Paré wrote:
</I>><i> >>> I think pre-selected Country installs would just be too hard to
</I>><i> >>> coordinate, laws change. Free and non-free is pretty simple.
</I>><i> >>>
</I>><i> >>> Marc
</I>><i> >>
</I>><i> >> +1
</I>><i> >>
</I>><i> >> My thoughts exactly.
</I>><i> >>
</I>><i> >> Salut,
</I>><i> >> Sinner
</I>><i> >
</I>><i> > Linux Mint provides an ISO without codec
</I>><i> > <A HREF="http://www.linuxmint.com/download.php">http://www.linuxmint.com/download.php</A>
</I>><i> > (btw some good ideas about ISO, like an OEM ISO). It nicely named
</I>><i> > "linuxmint-9-gnome-usa-japan-i386.iso" which just focus on 2 countries
</I>><i> > ;-)
</I>><i> >
</I>><i> > What's just funny is that we looking for mirrors of Linux Mint, there :
</I>><i> > <A HREF="http://linuxmint.com/mirrors.php">http://linuxmint.com/mirrors.php</A> several are located in USA, you can find
</I>><i> > a company, yellowfiber located in Virginia (if i am not wrong, VA =
</I>><i> > Virginia) with a legal contact in California, you can also find a mirror
</I>><i> > located in the University of Tennessee, and both (and others in USA)
</I>><i> > provide all ISOs (yellowfiber also provides a mirror for ArchLinux which
</I>><i> > contains libdvdcss)
</I>><i> >
</I>><i> > So companies, universities in USA provide softwares that we are here
</I>><i> > discussing if we can ship or not (and i don't want to insist, but
</I>><i> > Mageia.org is not located in USA). Maybe they are more aware of laws
</I>><i> > than we are, or are they taking too much risks ?
</I>><i> >
</I>><i> > Olivier
</I>><i>
</I>><i> Bonjour Olivier (from my side of the Atlantic)
</I>><i>
</I>><i> From what I can say from a couple of discussion list maintainers at
</I>><i> local universities, they are aware of the laws somewhat and are taking
</I>><i> risks (their rationale -- you can always ask for forgiveness after you
</I>><i> have done it).
</I>><i>
</I>><i> Re: Mint's OEM ISO -- I like this idea!
</I>><i>
</I>><i> Marc
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So they take risk being aware (and also being in USA), i then think Mageia
should provide codec and related tools (moreover being outside of USA) since
risk is much lower (and we can also produce an ISO without those codecs)
Olivier
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