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Solbu a écrit : +</I>>><i> On Tuesday 30 October 2012 09:37, Malo wrote: +</I>>>><i> - there is only faac, so why bother? (fuelling the first reason) +</I>>><i> +</I>>><i> There is also another side to this, that we either haven't talked +</I>>><i> about or doesn't know about. We are a Free software community, that +</I>>><i> includes some nonfree software. (And therefore doesn't qualify as a +</I>>><i> Free Software community according to some, but that's another +</I>>><i> debate.) A part of beeing a Free software community is that we have a +</I>>><i> preference as to what kind of software we are willing to work with. +</I>>><i> That also means that there are software we are not willing to work +</I>>><i> with. +</I>>><i> +</I>>><i> We could decide that «patented nonfree software» doesn't belong in +</I>>><i> our distribution. +</I>>><i> +</I>><i> That has been our temporary decision, to the best of my knowledge always +</I>><i> to be reviewed later. +</I>><i> But as we can see, many users want certain packages in this category, so +</I>><i> the topic keeps getting raised. +</I>><i> For myself, with a very strong preference for open source, I'm very +</I>><i> willing to accommodate those with a preference for certain non-free +</I>><i> software. +</I>><i> As well, there will always be proprietory software, particularly for +</I>><i> niche situations, which is not necessarily bad. +</I>><i> After all good ideas in proprietory software, which focuses on solving +</I>><i> real-world needs, can inspire a lot of good free software. +</I>><i> +</I> + +The choice is between 3 options : + +A) Let Faac off ;) +and stay without allowing to work on some multimedia files until an +opensource sofware really works (that's the way it goes since Mageia exists) +hoping that a third party repo provides what Mageia users need when they +are not strict opensource users (nevermind to know if they are a +majority or a minority). +Ordinary users must know that the third repo exists and how to use it +(not for beginners :( ) + + + +B) the most simple for admins and QA +if we allow the presence of non strictly free software in tainted +(needing to modify the Mageia policy => that's a Mageia Board decision ! +not only a packager vote. ) + + if the strict opensource users can discriminate strictly opensource and +non strictly opensource packages + +1) +in the tainted repo : +we may have faac (explicitely informing that it's build upon a non free +piece of code) +we may provide handbrake and cinelerra that absolutely need faac +(explicitely informing that they have the same problem as faac because +they are built upon it) + +2) +If we can have two versions with different names in the same repo + +we can provide vlc-tainted (as it is now, allowing to "update" from the +core repo's same version ) and beside it vlc-tainted-faaced or +vlc-twisted or whatever working suffix (informing that it is not +strictly opensource, and allowing to update from the core and from the +tainted version) +same for avidemux gstreamer audiokonverter arista and so on +It is simple for ordinary users or beginners: the faac versioned is +automatically chosen +Strict opensource users know what to do if they want purity ! + + +C) More heavy for admin and QA : create a non-free-tainted repo (and +update backport subrepos) +Always need to add a special suffix for vlc, avidemux... built with faac +option in this repo, to "update" them from core and tainted version : +- strict opensource users may not allow this repo... and it is simple +for them +- need to inform ordinary users to allow these repos and why (a little +complex for beginners) + + +Philippe + +</PRE> + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +<!--endarticle--> + <HR> + <P><UL> + <!--threads--> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="019724.html">[Mageia-dev] [changelog] [RPM] cauldron core/release kernel-tmb-3.6.5-3.mga3 +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="019727.html">[Mageia-dev] What's happening? +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#19725">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#19725">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#19725">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#19725">[ 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> |