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
