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List:       mageia-dev
Subject:    Re: [Mageia-dev] Mageia repository sections, licenses, restrictions,
From:       Anssi Hannula <anssi.hannula () iki ! fi>
Date:       2010-10-15 11:30:35
Message-ID: 201010151430.35543.anssi.hannula () iki ! fi
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Michael scherer kirjoitti perjantai, 15. lokakuuta 2010 02:18:37:
> On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 09:57:03PM +0200, Olivier Méjean wrote:
> > then French law is the law we have to consider for Mageia. Debian runs
> > under SPI organization located in the state of New York, USA, thus is
> > ruled by US Laws.
> 
> Since the only people who will have issue with this are the president ( aka
> Anne ) and the people who distribute this ( ie mirrors admins ), I think
> we should ask them and follow their opinions, and only theirs. Because
> we can speak of "we have no problem", we will have nothing what ever we do,
> because we are likely not liable. Anne and mirrors owners are. So their
> words is what does count.

Seems sensible to ask the mirror owners. It is possible some of them have not 
been aware of the problem at all, so I think we should make sure they 
understand that Ubuntu, Debian, Arch, etc. also contain patented technologies 
(to avoid the situation where they are willing to mirror Ubuntu/Debian/Arch 
but not allow patented software in Mageia, just because the other 
distributions didn't notify them of the issue; if they don't want to mirror 
Mageia if it contained patent-encumbered software, they really shouldn't be 
mirroring those other distributions either).

-- 
Anssi Hannula

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