On Wednesday 13 October 2010 14:29:14 Marc Paré wrote: > Le 2010-10-13 14:23, Michael Scherer a écrit : > > Le mercredi 13 octobre 2010 à 20:06 +0200, Olivier Méjean a écrit : > >> Le mercredi 13 octobre 2010 19:31:44, Michael Scherer a écrit : > >>> Le mardi 12 octobre 2010 à 17:53 +0200, Olivier Méjean a écrit : > >>>>> == 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 > >>> > >>> And for the people hosting mirrors outside of France ? > >> > >> It's their own responsability, no one force them, and some in the > >> world take the responsability to host mirrors with questionnable > >> software. Let's give them the liberty to choose as we have the > >> opportunity here in France to ship such software. No one forces > >> several company, university, or other groups to mirror ArchLinux, > >> PCLinuxOS, LinuxMint, PLF > > > > So I assume that you volunteer to find another Tier 1 mirror to replace > > ibiblio.org ? > > I was actually going to approach a university in Canada this week about > mirroring but I think I will wait till this is sorted out. I don't > believe I could convince them if they read this thread. They would most > definitely have second thoughts.
Indeed, as even Debian/Ubuntu do not ship libdvdcss (e.g. arch, gentoo do).. As for patents, Ubuntu already has 4 mirrors in Canadian universities. -- Anssi Hannula
