Re: [Mageia-dev] Is there any reason keeping ask.com as firefox's default search engine?

2011-02-18 Thread Funda Wang
2011/2/18 Michael Scherer : > Le vendredi 18 février 2011 à 11:49 +0100, Pascal Terjan a écrit : >> On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 08:23, Funda Wang wrote: >> > Hello, >> > >> > I couldn't have time installing alpha now, but I've found that we >> > still promote ask.com as default search engine of firefo

Re: [Mageia-dev] Is there any reason keeping ask.com as firefox's default search engine?

2011-02-18 Thread Maarten Vanraes
Op vrijdag 18 februari 2011 11:54:38 schreef Michael Scherer: [...] > Following upstream seems to be the safer solution for the moment. > > ( even if I would not be against promoting alternative solutions ). agreed

Re: [Mageia-dev] About panotools patent problem (and other problematic rpms)

2011-02-18 Thread Michael Scherer
Le vendredi 18 février 2011 à 12:47 +, James Kerr a écrit : > If there are two packages, one in core and another in tainted, then > doesn't urpmi need a way to recognise that the tainted package is newer > than (an update to) the corresponding core package? I believe that this > is achieved

Re: [Mageia-dev] About panotools patent problem (and other problematic rpms)

2011-02-18 Thread James Kerr
On 18/02/11 12:07, Michael Scherer wrote: Le vendredi 18 février 2011 à 12:43 +0100, Oliver Burger a écrit : Philippe DIDIER schrieb am 2011-02-18 And what I talked about (in the other thread with the same name) was about the easiness to build and use different rpms with the same spec having m

Re: [Mageia-dev] About panotools patent problem (and other problematic rpms)

2011-02-18 Thread Balcaen John
Le vendredi 18 février 2011 06:13:07, Philippe DIDIER a écrit : > Hi everybody ! > Just seen that mikala added panotools in the repository . (some > algorythms library to build panoramic photographs) > Very happy with this ! (thanks a lot...) > > That's one of the first patent problems we may enco

Re: [Mageia-dev] About panotools patent problem (and other problematic rpms)

2011-02-18 Thread Michael Scherer
Le vendredi 18 février 2011 à 12:43 +0100, Oliver Burger a écrit : > Philippe DIDIER schrieb am 2011-02-18 > > And what I talked about (in the other thread with the same name) > > was about the easiness to build and use different rpms with the > > same spec having mdv versus plf suffixes... > > An

Re: [Mageia-dev] About panotools patent problem (and other problematic rpms)

2011-02-18 Thread Michael Scherer
Le vendredi 18 février 2011 à 11:58 +0100, Philippe DIDIER a écrit : > > >/ Long time ago, iPIX, a company from USA muliplied patent lawsuit against > > />/ these free algorythms inventor and photographers using them (this > > />/ company is now dead because of bankruptcy but the patent problem is

Re: [Mageia-dev] About panotools patent problem (and other problematic rpms)

2011-02-18 Thread Oliver Burger
Philippe DIDIER schrieb am 2011-02-18 > And what I talked about (in the other thread with the same name) > was about the easiness to build and use different rpms with the > same spec having mdv versus plf suffixes... > And about it seems that we need to have different naming for Mageia > (whether

Re: [Mageia-dev] About panotools patent problem (and other problematic rpms)

2011-02-18 Thread Philippe DIDIER
First I want to apologize for having cut the thread (I think it won't happen again) I have followed the discussion about tainted packages... And what I talked about (in the other thread with the same name) was about the easiness to build and use different rpms with the same spec having mdv vers

Re: [Mageia-dev] About panotools patent problem (and other problematic rpms)

2011-02-18 Thread Oliver Burger
Philippe DIDIER schrieb am 2011-02-18 > But this doesn't solve the more global problem of rpms with patent > problems (how to have them clearly built and identified : need > different suffixes ?) Wasn't this the reason for creating the "tainted" repository? Since we don't have any software paten

[Mageia-dev] About panotools patent problem (and other problematic rpms)

2011-02-18 Thread Philippe DIDIER
> >/ Long time ago, iPIX, a company from USA muliplied patent lawsuit against > />/ these free algorythms inventor and photographers using them (this > />/ company is now dead because of bankruptcy but the patent problem is > />/ still live... ) > / > Well, who own the patents now ? > I don't know

Re: [Mageia-dev] Is there any reason keeping ask.com as firefox's default search engine?

2011-02-18 Thread Michael Scherer
Le vendredi 18 février 2011 à 11:49 +0100, Pascal Terjan a écrit : > On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 08:23, Funda Wang wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I couldn't have time installing alpha now, but I've found that we > > still promote ask.com as default search engine of firefox, and other > > additional search

Re: [Mageia-dev] Is there any reason keeping ask.com as firefox's default search engine?

2011-02-18 Thread Pascal Terjan
On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 08:23, Funda Wang wrote: > Hello, > > I couldn't have time installing alpha now, but I've found that we > still promote ask.com as default search engine of firefox, and other > additional search engines such as jamendo. > > I think mageia has nothing todo with above search

Re: [Mageia-dev] Is there any reason keeping ask.com as firefox's default search engine?

2011-02-18 Thread Pascal Terjan
Yes I think they have updated their policy last year and Debian said it was now fine (no time to look for it currently) On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 11:34, Funda Wang wrote: > and, could we use the name and the icon of firefox, without agreement > with mozilla? > > 2011/2/18, Dexter Morgan : >> On Fri

Re: [Mageia-dev] Is there any reason keeping ask.com as firefox's default search engine?

2011-02-18 Thread Funda Wang
and, could we use the name and the icon of firefox, without agreement with mozilla? 2011/2/18, Dexter Morgan : > On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 8:23 AM, Funda Wang wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I couldn't have time installing alpha now, but I've found that we >> still promote ask.com as default search engine o

Re: [Mageia-dev] About panotools patent problem (and other problematic rpms)

2011-02-18 Thread Michael Scherer
Le vendredi 18 février 2011 à 10:13 +0100, Philippe DIDIER a écrit : > Hi everybody ! > Just seen that mikala added panotools in the repository . (some > algorythms library to build panoramic photographs) > Very happy with this ! (thanks a lot...) > > That's one of the first patent problems we may

Re: [Mageia-dev] Mageia 1 alpha 1 is out

2011-02-18 Thread Angelo Naselli
> are you italian and you didn't join the i18n-it team yet? we need you!! > please, let me know Well Marcello, i didn't because i'm not really fond of translation (i'm not in mandriva also) and since i can hardly find the time to work on my packages at the moment, i don't want to add me in jobs i

[Mageia-dev] About panotools patent problem (and other problematic rpms)

2011-02-18 Thread Philippe DIDIER
Hi everybody ! Just seen that mikala added panotools in the repository . (some algorythms library to build panoramic photographs) Very happy with this ! (thanks a lot...) That's one of the first patent problems we may encounter : Long time ago, iPIX, a company from USA muliplied patent lawsuit ag

Re: [Mageia-dev] Is there any reason keeping ask.com as firefox's default search engine?

2011-02-18 Thread Dexter Morgan
On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 8:23 AM, Funda Wang wrote: > Hello, > > I couldn't have time installing alpha now, but I've found that we > still promote ask.com as default search engine of firefox, and other > additional search engines such as jamendo. > > I think mageia has nothing todo with above searc