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 > > > > -- > EuropeSwPatentFree http://EuropeSwPatentFree.hispalinux.es >
