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

Wed Jul 6 15:50:43 CEST 2011

On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 15:04, Ahmad Samir <ahmadsamir3891 at gmail.com> wrote:
+> On 6 July 2011 14:27, Romain d'Alverny <rdalverny at gmail.com> wrote:
+>> I understand this as: software that might be free or open source =>
+>> can be not free or open source. "might" expressed the possibility, not
+>> the requirement. IOW, tainted does not discriminate free and non free
+>> software.
+>
+> It does differentiate; given that Anssi is the one who worked on the
+> tainted policy the most, and he doesn't think faac should be in
+> tainted, is enough to say that the wording in the wiki needs to
+> express our stance on the issue in a clearer way...
+
+Ok, fine then, fix this in the definition on the wiki. But make sure
+to explicit what becomes of software that is non free and questionable
+regarding patents (id est, it goes nowhere), so that the layout is
+clearer (here with a changed triage):
+ - "core": 100% free software
+ - "tainted": 100% free software, but locally subject to software
+patents or local legal terms
+ - "nonfree": non-free software
+ - nowhere, we don't package/distribute this: non-free software, for
+which we may still have the source code or binaries, and a license to
+redistribute from author but patent law or other local provision may
+prevent to redistribute it anyway.
+
+(I am not taking sides here, just re-explaining your understanding)
+
+Romain
+