[Mageia-dev] Mirror layout, round two

Mon Dec 6 13:04:28 CET 2010

On 6 December 2010 12:37, Daniel Kreuter
+<daniel.kreuter85 at googlemail.com> wrote:
+>
+>
+> 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
+>
+>
+>
+>
+
+Because Ubuntu already has a repo called "universal"? that's a similar
+reason to why it wasn't called "restricted", because restricted is
+used by distros that offer a commercial repo as in "pay to use some
+more stuff".
+
+-- 
+Ahmad Samir
+