[Mageia-dev] Mirror layout : Why validate software patents ?

Wed Dec 8 14:54:29 CET 2010

Wolfgang Bornath kirjoitti:
+> 2010/12/8 Daniel Kreuter <daniel.kreuter85 at googlemail.com>:
+>>
+>>
+>> On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 9:51 AM, Wolfgang Bornath
+>> <molch.b at googlemail.com>
+>> wrote:
+>>>
+>>> Oh, really? Some (like Mandriva) do not have such a repository because
+>>> they do not distribute such software at all, PLF does that for
+>>> Mandriva. What about Ubuntu? What about Fedora?
+>
+>> In Ubuntu you have some patented software in the repos.
+>
+> Yes, I know. The question was: do they have those patented software
+> within the same repo as all the other software or do they have an
+> extra repo for that.
+>
+> In reply to andre999 I wanted to point out that there are other
+> distributions who make a difference between patented software and
+> everything else. Some do not distribute them at all (Mandriva,
+> Fedora), some have them in an extra repository (Ubuntu).
+
+Ubuntu doesn't have an extra repository for them. They are in universe,
+which contains all the non-core packages (like mdv "contrib").
+
+(Some patent-covered stuff, like ffmpeg, are in ubuntu main)
+
+-- 
+Anssi Hannula
+