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

Wed Dec 8 18:28:10 CET 2010

2010/12/8 Oliver Burger <oliver.bgr at googlemail.com>:
+> Let's devide the repos in those packages, that can be distibuted everywhere
+> and those that can't and let the mirror maintainers chose if or if not they
+> are willing to mirror the second one.
+
+That was one of the first suggestions in the whole discussion. The
+only problem there is that this again creates a problem with the
+mirrorlist system (I remember, I'm writing the same words now that I
+wrote some weeks ago!). So, we either abandon the mirrorlist approach
+or we have 2 mirrorlists (one with and one without tainted software)
+and let the user decide which one he sets up on his system.
+
+> And if you are suggesting not to provide all those packages (which are mostly
+> multimedia I think), I'm not with you. I do want a distribution, that can play
+> my music and videos and so on without having to build the software for
+> myself...
+
++1 I am sure this goes for the majority of users.
+
+-- 
+wobo
+