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

Wed Jul 6 14:29:25 CEST 2011

On 06/07/11 12:58, Romain d'Alverny wrote:
+> 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)
+
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+>   - "tainted" hosts all the rest, be it free software or not.
+>
+
+I don't think that the last line is entirely consistent with what I 
+understood was Mageia's commitment to provide a free distro for those 
+users who want it. Such a user would have to investigate whether or not 
+a tainted package was free or nonfree, or not use the tainted repo at all.
+
+Jim
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