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All non-free goes into non-free +</I>>>>>><i> +</I>>>>>><i> 2. Software which may be illegal in some countries (mostly because of +</I>>>>>><i> licensing) will go into tainted. +</I>>>>>><i> +</I>>>>>><i> That's all. Clear and simple. +</I>>>>>><i> +</I>>>>>><i> The question about GPL or other free licenses is not touched by +</I>>>>>><i> tainted. So, everything which does not have to go to tainted will go +</I>>>>>><i> to free (core) or non-free, depending on it's status. +</I>>>>><i> +</I>>>>><i> Indeed. <A HREF="http://mageia.org/wiki/doku.php?id=licensing_policy#acceptable_licenses">http://mageia.org/wiki/doku.php?id=licensing_policy#acceptable_licenses</A> +</I>>>>><i> says: +</I>>>>><i> +</I>>>>><i> "The tainted section accepts software under a license that is might be +</I>>>>><i> free or open source and which cannot be redistributed publicly in +</I>>>>><i> certain areas in the world, or due to patents issues." +</I>>>>><i> +</I>>>>><i> Reformulating it in an other, more explicit way maybe: +</I>>>>><i>  - "core" hosts 100% free software that can be redistributed anywhere +</I>>>>><i> (or almost, the world is a bit more complicated than that) +</I>>>>><i>  - "nonfree" hosts non-free software that can be redistributed anywhere (same) +</I>>>>><i>  - "tainted" hosts all the rest, be it free software or not. +</I>>>><i> +</I>>>><i> Third point is wrong, "a license that is might be free or open +</I>>>><i> source", which, I think, means only software with an open source +</I>>>><i> software License. +</I>>><i> +</I>>><i> I understand this as: software that might be free or open source => +</I>>><i> can be not free or open source. "might" expressed the possibility, not +</I>>><i> the requirement. IOW, tainted does not discriminate free and non free +</I>>><i> software. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> It does differentiate; given that Anssi is the one who worked on the +</I>><i> tainted policy the most, and he doesn't think faac should be in +</I>><i> tainted, is enough to say that the wording in the wiki needs to +</I>><i> express our stance on the issue in a clearer way... +</I> +The point we made when discussing these issues was: + + - to provide a section where people who only want free software can +have all free software (core) + - to provide a section where people who want non-free software +(mainly proprietary drivers, plugins, codecs) can have their drivers, +plugins, whatever (non-free) + - to provide a section where we can put software which may be illegal +to use in certain countries (some codecs, libdvdcss2, etc.), so users +and mirror maintainers in such countries can decide for themselves to +use this or not (tainted) + +That's all. Now saying that faac should not be in tainted, where +should it go if not in tainted? How does faac differ to other software +which is in tainted? The only reason it should not be in tainted would +be that we can not distribute it at all. +This brings us back to the core of the discussion what kind of +software Mageia should or should not provide. + +-- +wobo +</PRE> + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +<!--endarticle--> + <HR> + <P><UL> + <!--threads--> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="006414.html">[Mageia-dev] Repository question: where do we put non-free+tainted RPMs? +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="006425.html">[Mageia-dev] Repository question: where do we put non-free+tainted RPMs? +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#6416">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#6416">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#6416">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#6416">[ author ]</a> + </LI> + </UL> + +<hr> +<a href="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">More information about the Mageia-dev +mailing list</a><br> +</body></html> |