On 12 October 2010 17:53, Olivier Méjean <[email protected]> wrote: > Le mardi 12 octobre 2010 17:02:38, Anssi Hannula a écrit : >> Hi all! >> >> == What about patents? > > Software Patents are allowed or not according to the country. Here in France, > where Mageia.org, the association is based, the rule is softwares are not > eligible to patent so i would say that there is no need to apply restriction > >> >> == And DVDCSS, etc? > > What's in etc ? > However, here in France we have a law "Dadvsi" on which the Conseil > Constitutionnel (something like American Suprem Court) has statuted that the > law could not prevent exception of decompilation and the exception of > circumvention of DRM if this is for interoperability. In other words the use > of libdvdcss is allowed for interoperability. > So for me, Mageia can come with libdvdcss and other tools for interoperability > > About codec, you may know that VLC is based in France and hosts some projects > useful for interoperability. Since the start of the project in 1996, i don't > remember VLC being sued for such projects. So let's provide codec by default > with Mageia for a better "user experience" :) > > These are my first comments > > Olivier >
Mageia won't be installed only in France; those patents still apply in other countries so not all patent restrictions can be dropped. -- Ahmad Samir
