[fedora.us] More bugzilla ticket reassignments

[Kyrre Ness Sjobak]

Or somhow take advantage of the "do you have any extra cd's" under
firstboot. I sombody at Livna/fedora.us/etc made such an iso, and it got
widely published where it is to be found, "everybody" would find that
and add it to the download.

Another thing: Using timezone localisation selection to choose it, might
be a bad idea as some people in the US might decide they want it no
matter what. I mean - really - how namy here does REALLY care that
because of US patent law libdcss is illegal, and therefor boot windows
each time they want to watch a dvd on their pc?

No, let the users decide. Put a big box there, with warnings and
everything, and "yes/no" buttons. Debian does it, SuSE delivers mp3 etc,
and many other distros does to. US is not the world ;)

BTW. according to Richard Stallman, the EU is going to have a new vote
on software patents in the beginning of october. Check out ffii.org for
more information. As far as i know, the case is that the parliment voted
"no" on sw patents last year, but the council still wants them (backed
my multi-billion corps like Nokia, Siemens, and Microsoft), and have
demanded a new hearing, in the beginning of October.

lør, 18.09.2004 kl. 08.23 skrev Hans de Goede:
> Kyrre Ness Sjobak wrote:
> > There is just one tiny little thing i wonder about: In core 3, will
> > there be an option under install "Do you want to use extras-packages?
> > This may be illegal under current US and EU copyright/patent law" -
> > something like debian does? That would be really great, but i dont know
> > the legal implications.
> > 
> 
> 1) It currently still is totally legal to ship packages which have sw 
> patent issues in the eu, the current eu law clearly forbids sw patents, 
> so although some sw patents have been awarded in the eu this _currently_ 
> is a non issue. The ec (goverment) of the eu however is doing its best 
> to get sw patent legalised in the eu, against the will of the eu 
> parlement (democracy, whats that?) and against the will of many 
> countries parlements.
> 
> 2) I've been thinking about something more elaborate then this:
> 
> Change the select your timezone screen to a select your location screen. 
> This way we could also automaticly select the nearest official mirror 
> for up2date and yum, and when we're in a country where it is legal 
> automaticly include livna in the repository list.
> 
> If this is done before package selection, we could then also ask:
> You seem to have an internetconnection, would you like to download and 
> install extra available software? And include the extra repositories in 
> the package selection (for example default install xine on a desktop if 
> available).
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Hans
> 
> 
> 
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