Le mercredi 13 octobre 2010 à 14:29 -0400, Marc Paré a écrit : > 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.
Well, then you can simply be clear with them and ask them to see their boss/lawyers/whatever who can decide. After all, I do not see why no one directly asked to mirror admins first. -- Michael Scherer