Le 2010-10-13 10:58, Olivier Méjean a écrit :
Le mercredi 13 octobre 2010 16:49:35, Marc Paré a écrit :
Le 2010-10-13 10:29, Olivier Méjean a écrit :
Le mercredi 13 octobre 2010 15:44:27, Sinner from the Prairy a écrit :
Marc Paré wrote:
I think pre-selected Country installs would just be too hard to
coordinate, laws change. Free and non-free is pretty simple.
Marc
+1
My thoughts exactly.
Salut,
Sinner
Linux Mint provides an ISO without codec
http://www.linuxmint.com/download.php
(btw some good ideas about ISO, like an OEM ISO). It nicely named
"linuxmint-9-gnome-usa-japan-i386.iso" which just focus on 2 countries
;-)
What's just funny is that we looking for mirrors of Linux Mint, there :
http://linuxmint.com/mirrors.php several are located in USA, you can find
a company, yellowfiber located in Virginia (if i am not wrong, VA =
Virginia) with a legal contact in California, you can also find a mirror
located in the University of Tennessee, and both (and others in USA)
provide all ISOs (yellowfiber also provides a mirror for ArchLinux which
contains libdvdcss)
So companies, universities in USA provide softwares that we are here
discussing if we can ship or not (and i don't want to insist, but
Mageia.org is not located in USA). Maybe they are more aware of laws
than we are, or are they taking too much risks ?
Olivier
Bonjour Olivier (from my side of the Atlantic)
From what I can say from a couple of discussion list maintainers at
local universities, they are aware of the laws somewhat and are taking
risks (their rationale -- you can always ask for forgiveness after you
have done it).
Re: Mint's OEM ISO -- I like this idea!
Marc
So they take risk being aware (and also being in USA), i then think Mageia
should provide codec and related tools (moreover being outside of USA) since
risk is much lower (and we can also produce an ISO without those codecs)
Olivier
Sorry, I am speaking from a Canadian perspective. That may make a
difference.
Marc
