Re: [Mageia-dev] About panotools patent problem (and other problematic rpms)

2011-02-18 Thread Michael Scherer
Le vendredi 18 février 2011 à 10:13 +0100, Philippe DIDIER a écrit : Hi everybody ! Just seen that mikala added panotools in the repository . (some algorythms library to build panoramic photographs) Very happy with this ! (thanks a lot...) That's one of the first patent problems we may

Re: [Mageia-dev] Is there any reason keeping ask.com as firefox's default search engine?

2011-02-18 Thread Funda Wang
and, could we use the name and the icon of firefox, without agreement with mozilla? 2011/2/18, Dexter Morgan dmorga...@gmail.com: On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 8:23 AM, Funda Wang fundaw...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I couldn't have time installing alpha now, but I've found that we still promote

Re: [Mageia-dev] Is there any reason keeping ask.com as firefox's default search engine?

2011-02-18 Thread Pascal Terjan
On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 08:23, Funda Wang fundaw...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I couldn't have time installing alpha now, but I've found that we still promote ask.com as default search engine of firefox, and other additional search engines such as jamendo. I think mageia has nothing todo with

Re: [Mageia-dev] Is there any reason keeping ask.com as firefox's default search engine?

2011-02-18 Thread Michael Scherer
Le vendredi 18 février 2011 à 11:49 +0100, Pascal Terjan a écrit : On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 08:23, Funda Wang fundaw...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I couldn't have time installing alpha now, but I've found that we still promote ask.com as default search engine of firefox, and other

[Mageia-dev] About panotools patent problem (and other problematic rpms)

2011-02-18 Thread Philippe DIDIER
/ Long time ago, iPIX, a company from USA muliplied patent lawsuit against // these free algorythms inventor and photographers using them (this // company is now dead because of bankruptcy but the patent problem is // still live... ) / Well, who own the patents now ? I don't know who owns

Re: [Mageia-dev] About panotools patent problem (and other problematic rpms)

2011-02-18 Thread Oliver Burger
Philippe DIDIER philippedid...@laposte.net schrieb am 2011-02-18 But this doesn't solve the more global problem of rpms with patent problems (how to have them clearly built and identified : need different suffixes ?) Wasn't this the reason for creating the tainted repository? Since we don't

Re: [Mageia-dev] About panotools patent problem (and other problematic rpms)

2011-02-18 Thread Oliver Burger
Philippe DIDIER philippedid...@laposte.net schrieb am 2011-02-18 And what I talked about (in the other thread with the same name) was about the easiness to build and use different rpms with the same spec having mdv versus plf suffixes... And about it seems that we need to have different naming

Re: [Mageia-dev] About panotools patent problem (and other problematic rpms)

2011-02-18 Thread Michael Scherer
Le vendredi 18 février 2011 à 12:43 +0100, Oliver Burger a écrit : Philippe DIDIER philippedid...@laposte.net schrieb am 2011-02-18 And what I talked about (in the other thread with the same name) was about the easiness to build and use different rpms with the same spec having mdv versus

Re: [Mageia-dev] About panotools patent problem (and other problematic rpms)

2011-02-18 Thread Balcaen John
Le vendredi 18 février 2011 06:13:07, Philippe DIDIER a écrit : Hi everybody ! Just seen that mikala added panotools in the repository . (some algorythms library to build panoramic photographs) Very happy with this ! (thanks a lot...) That's one of the first patent problems we may encounter

Re: [Mageia-dev] About panotools patent problem (and other problematic rpms)

2011-02-18 Thread James Kerr
On 18/02/11 12:07, Michael Scherer wrote: Le vendredi 18 février 2011 à 12:43 +0100, Oliver Burger a écrit : Philippe DIDIERphilippedid...@laposte.net schrieb am 2011-02-18 And what I talked about (in the other thread with the same name) was about the easiness to build and use different rpms

Re: [Mageia-dev] Is there any reason keeping ask.com as firefox's default search engine?

2011-02-18 Thread Funda Wang
2011/2/18 Michael Scherer m...@zarb.org: Le vendredi 18 février 2011 à 11:49 +0100, Pascal Terjan a écrit : On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 08:23, Funda Wang fundaw...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I couldn't have time installing alpha now, but I've found that we still promote ask.com as default