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<H1>[Mageia-dev] Mageia repository sections, licenses, restrictions, firmware etc</H1>
<B>Romain d'Alverny</B>
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<I>Fri Oct 15 14:36:46 CEST 2010</I>
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<PRE>On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 11:40, Tux99 <<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">tux99-mga at uridium.org</A>> wrote:
><i> [...]
</I>
Ok. This is, again, going nowhere. We don't even follow who is trying
to make what point.
><i> On Fri, 15 Oct 2010, Romain d'Alverny wrote:
</I>>><i> Who talks about marketing here? Please stay on topic. Misc is talking
</I>>><i> about official representatives, board members liability - not only in
</I>>><i> France, but abroad. We're not in Merovingian times where one was
</I>>><i> judged according to his original land's law.
</I>><i>
</I>><i> Assuming that a board member get's arrested in the US because Mageia
</I>
Who talks about being arrested or "frightened"?... Being liable and
being arrested are two distinct things...
>><i> There is no guarantee that we won't setup affiliate not-for-profit
</I>>><i> orgs abroad.
</I>>><i> Etc.
</I>><i>
</I>><i> If for this reason Mageia has to be a crippled mediocre product then all
</I>><i> these precautions were a wast of time and efforts too.
</I>><i> There is no point in making a grand, legally sound structure for a
</I>><i> useless product with a fading community.
</I>
...
I don't understand your point, neither your attitude here...
><i> A successfull Mageia would strive to take advantage of the countries
</I>><i> with the best laws for it's interest rather than plan according to the
</I>><i> lowest common denominator.
</I>
Who said that was the plan?...
>><i> wouldn't have located the association in France. There are other
</I>>><i> places far more interesting in this regard.
</I>><i>
</I>><i> And if you want Mageia to be really successful you should take advantage
</I>><i> of those places.
</I>
Yes, right. :-) You know better the picture/history we (founders) are
in. We're not going to incorporate right now at the other end of the
world. :-)
>><i>  - what do we _want_ to have in software repositories and _why_?
</I>><i>
</I>><i> Easy, we want the best distro possible, with the best possible out of
</I>><i> the box experience,
</I>
That is a very vague statement. "I want it all". However, we will get
to that in time, see my previous post (yesterday) about the goal(s) of
Mageia.org.
>><i>  - what are legal constraints that we must deal with
</I>>><i> (building/packaging/distributing/using), and how?
</I>><i>
</I>><i> We should strive to take advantage of the best legal environment to make
</I>><i> our targets possible.
</I>
Sure. In a sustainable way.
>><i>  - how can we make this a predictable process for future situations?
</I>><i>
</I>><i> No one can predict the future, laws change all the time so the only way
</I>><i> is to base ourselves on current valid laws and keep frexible to move to
</I>><i> a better legal environment if necessary.
</I>
This was not relative to laws only, but to the project mission first.
><i> Opportunities not fear should be the key word here.
</I>
Who speaks about fear? we're speaking about finding a policy for the
project here.
And I believe we are all able to _discuss_ this calmly without being
offensive... Again, this conversation is going nowhere.
Please, guys, post a _proposal_ for comments somewhere in a fixed
format (blog, wiki page, anything) before proposing it for comment in
a mail discussion. Or... make sure to frame the conversation, in
topic, in time and in language.
Cheers,
Romain
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