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 ? Shall we forget them ? > 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" :) "no one has been sued yet" is not a real argument. No one sued mplayer developers for distributing binary copyrighted codecs. No one sued http://www.dll-files.com/ , despites distributing windows dlls. Yet, what they do is a clear violation of various copyright treaties. So no, the fact that no one has been sued is not a reason to do the same. -- Michael Scherer