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    <B>Wolfgang Bornath</B> 
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    <I>Fri Oct 15 13:42:58 CEST 2010</I>
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<PRE>2010/10/15 Anssi Hannula &lt;<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">anssi.hannula at iki.fi</A>&gt;:
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</I>&gt;<i> Seems sensible to ask the mirror owners. It is possible some of them have not
</I>&gt;<i> been aware of the problem at all, so I think we should make sure they
</I>&gt;<i> understand that Ubuntu, Debian, Arch, etc. also contain patented technologies
</I>&gt;<i> (to avoid the situation where they are willing to mirror Ubuntu/Debian/Arch
</I>&gt;<i> but not allow patented software in Mageia, just because the other
</I>&gt;<i> distributions didn't notify them of the issue; if they don't want to mirror
</I>&gt;<i> Mageia if it contained patent-encumbered software, they really shouldn't be
</I>&gt;<i> mirroring those other distributions either).
</I>
As mirror maintainer/owner of Mandriva Linux and future Mageia
(ftp.mandrivauser.de) I discussed this problem with my friends and we
decided not to mirror PLF although a German university does
(ftp.gwdg.de). The point is that our mirror is hosted on a private
server where just one person is liable (me, unfortunately). But we
also decided to mirror the non-free branch of Mandriva Linux. There is
non-free and there is patented and/or legally unclear software - we
will definitely stay away from the latter when mirroring Mageia.
Making a difference between such software on the parent mirror will
make it easy for mirrors such as ours. Distributing such software in
the same branches as &quot;normal&quot; software will make it impossible to
mirror Mageia.

-- 
wobo
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