On Tuesday 12 October 2010 17:53:54 Olivier Méjean wrote: > Le mardi 12 octobre 2010 17:02:38, Anssi Hannula a écrit : > > Hi all! > > > > == What about patents? > > Software Patents are allowed or not according to the country. Here in > France, where Mageia.org, the association is based, the rule is softwares > are not eligible to patent so i would say that there is no need to apply > restriction > > > == And DVDCSS, etc? > > What's in etc ?
libaacs for example, for AACS in Bluray. > 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 > > About codec, you may know that VLC is based in France and hosts some > projects useful for interoperability. Since the start of the project in > 1996, i don't remember VLC being sued for such projects. So let's provide > codec by default with Mageia for a better "user experience" :) > > These are my first comments > > Olivier -- Anssi Hannula