[Mageia-dev] Repository question: where do we put non-free+tainted RPMs?

Wed Jul 6 13:58:23 CEST 2011

On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 12:10, Wolfgang Bornath <molch.b at googlemail.com> wrote:
+> If we go back to the beginning of the discussion where to put such
+> packages which were in PLF we made a clear difference:
+>
+> 1. All non-free goes into non-free
+>
+> 2. Software which may be illegal in some countries (mostly because of
+> licensing) will go into tainted.
+>
+> That's all. Clear and simple.
+>
+> The question about GPL or other free licenses is not touched by
+> tainted. So, everything which does not have to go to tainted will go
+> to free (core) or non-free, depending on it's status.
+
+Indeed. http://mageia.org/wiki/doku.php?id=licensing_policy#acceptable_licenses
+says:
+
+"The tainted section accepts software under a license that is might be
+free or open source and which cannot be redistributed publicly in
+certain areas in the world, or due to patents issues."
+
+Reformulating it in an other, more explicit way maybe:
+ - "core" hosts 100% free software that can be redistributed anywhere
+(or almost, the world is a bit more complicated than that)
+ - "nonfree" hosts non-free software that can be redistributed anywhere (same)
+ - "tainted" hosts all the rest, be it free software or not.
+
+Romain
+