Legality of .DEBS in Medialinux.
Hi, I'm Marco Ghirlanda, Linux Advisor at the Virtual Reality and Multi
Media Park of Turin, Italy. (www.vrmmp.it).
We developed for our Open Source Lab (www.opensourcelab.it) a remastered
version of the Knoppix Live Cd, Medialinux, wich includes most ot the
audio, graphic and video software that is in the Debian collection of
packages. This Cd was primarly done for testing purposes and to make our
students try the linux + multi media softwares without too many
problems. I've included many software from external repositories, but I
didn't take care (until now) about the legal conseguences of this action.
The fact is that I would like to know if there is a legal risk, in Italy
or in the world to distribute on a cd .deb's from
http://marillat.free.fr/dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/ (like
libdvdcss2 or mplayer, or w32codecs, and so on...). To be sure would I
need to remove all this software and include only packages from the
"main" section (excluding also "contrib" and "non-free" sections?). I'm
surely a bit confused...
Full list of packages is at
ftp://209.50.230.46/medialinux/debs(list_of_software).txt
I'm very new to this part of the Linux Story and I will like some
advices on where to start....
Thanks in advance to everybody who is going to answer this post, Marco
Ghirlanda
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