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

Tue Jul 26 11:19:31 CEST 2011

Hello,
+
+as this discussion has come to a standstill, could we please restart this to 
+get some results
+and some decisions? This is going on for some months, back and forth and seems we
+have come nowhere.
+
+Or has there already been some progress, which i have overseen, besides this:
+http://mageia.org/wiki/doku.php?id=software_inclusion_policy
+http://mageia.org/wiki/doku.php?id=software_patents_policy
+
+
+
+As far as FAAC is concerned, if we can't have this in the repos because it  
+supposedly contains
+code based on the <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO>ISO MPEG-4 reference code, 
+whose license is not compatible with the 
+<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Lesser_General_Public_License>LGPL
+license, according to wikipedia.
+Then why do we have FAAD2 in the repos, which seems to contain copyrighted code 
+from german
+Nero AG? Citing wikipedia from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FAAC#Licensing
+
+    FAAD2 is licensed under the GPL v2 (and later GPL versions). Code from
+    FAAD2 is copyright
+    of Nero AG (the "appropriate copyright message" mentioned in section 2c of
+    the GPLv2).
+    The source code contains a note that the use of this software may require
+    the payment
+    of patent royalties.
+
+