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.
- 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.
- 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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