On 12 October 2010 18:11, Olivier Méjean <[email protected]> wrote: > Le mardi 12 octobre 2010 18:07:08, Ahmad Samir a écrit : >> 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. > > And going that way you will have to drop each software that will break a law > in a country ... > > Olivier >
I said "not all patent restrictions can be dropped"; it's not a lift-all-restrictions-and-hope-it-works-out sort of deal here :) Not all patents are enforceable in a court of law, however some of them are. -- Ahmad Samir
