[Mageia-dev] Mirror layout, round two

Mon Dec 6 11:37:55 CET 2010

On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 10:25 AM, Ahmad Samir <ahmadsamir3891 at gmail.com>wrote:
+
+> On 6 December 2010 09:29, Ernest N. Wilcox Jr. <ewilcox at bex.net> wrote:
+> > With regard to the naming of the repository dediocated to software
+> tainted
+> > with a patent, etc., How about "non-GPL"? I think that such a name should
+> be
+> > well understood by users of nearly any language, particularly if they are
+> > familiar with the GPL.
+> >
+> > My2cents
+> > --
+> > Ernest N. Wilcox Jr.
+> > Registered Linux User 247790
+> > ICQ 41060744
+> >
+>
+> Read the afro-mentioned thread again; most of those stuff are released
+> under a GPL/GPL-like license (faad and faac packages for example, for
+> playing back and encoding using the AAC audio codec, respectively),
+> they're free open source software, but they infringe some patents.
+>
+> --
+> Ahmad Samir
+>
+
+Why don't we call it universe or something like that? It's a neutral meaning
+where also packages without patents and such with patents can be stored in.
+
+-- 
+Mit freundlichen Grüßen
+
+Greetings
+
+Daniel Kreuter
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