-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Marcel Hilzinger wrote:
Am Freitag, 14. Oktober 2005 16:25 schrieb Christoph Thiel:
On Fri, 14 Oct 2005, Marcel Hilzinger wrote:
What about making a special repo for legally grey-zone packages? I'd like to put packman, guru and other packages on our CDs /DVDs often, but have to sort them out the heavily. You want your repos to be included in OpenSUSE, so that users just have to klick to enable the installation source. With a special repo for all the half-legal and illegal stuff (e.g on a server in a non-EU country, like Switzerland ;-), live would perhaps be easyier and safer. ... don't expect comments on this on a public mailinglist ;)
Yeah ;) Well, Marcel, we actually already though a little about that. It would definately be required if we want to have repositories available e.g. as a choicelist in YaST2, as it seems pretty clear that Novell cannot endorse linking to repositories that include e.g. mplayer, mad or lame (not even to mention libdvdcss, but noone is taking the potential risk of having it in a repository). You'll always have to know where to get that repository. Maybe we could get in touch with the PLF folks (Penguin Liberation Front). They are hosting such packages (amongst others), e.g.: http://plf.acnova.com/mandriva/free/src/ (and search for libdvd..., you know ;)) (BTW, that mirror of theirs is in.. Singapore :)) Although I suppose that they just host it and don't care about potential legal issues. They'll most probably be at FOSDEM again, I'll make sure to talk with'em. Marcel, are you sure that hosting such stuff is less problematic in .ch ? Do you have some place to host it ? :D
I thought, there is freedom of speech in Germany ;-)
Tell that to heise ;)
cheers
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