Quote: Ahmad Samir wrote on Tue, 12 October 2010 18:07 > > Mageia won't be installed only in France; those patents still apply in > other countries so not all patent restrictions can be dropped.
Nobody know the laws of every country in the world. Just because some software might be covered by patents in a FEW countries, you want to make users in the rest of the world suffer the inconvenience of not having proper multimedia support out of the box? I think Mageia should include as much multimedia codecs as possible, it the user's responsibility to know the laws of his/her country and if necessary uninstall anything unlicensed/illegal in his/her country. -- Mageia ML Forum Gateway: http://mageia.linuxtech.net/forum/
