[Mageia-dev] Teamviewer and X86_64 build . . .

Mon Nov 28 12:31:01 CET 2011

Am Montag, 28. November 2011, 12:09:27 schrieb Kamil Rytarowski:
+> On 28.11.2011 11:32, Guillaume Rousse wrote:
+> > Le 28/11/2011 11:28, Kamil Rytarowski a écrit :
+> >> There were a few requests for TeamViewer in my local Mageia site - I
+> >> suggest to add it to our repositories (probably as tainted and as a
+> >> downloading script).
+> > 
+> > They are better ways to contribute to the distribution than helping
+> > 'poor little users' to install crappy proprietary software. Such as
+> > writing documentation about dependency management, for instance.
+> 
+> I wouldn't like to follow the OpenBSD way... There is software like
+> TrueCrypt, Skype, TeamViewer that many users need. And there is no harm
+> to add it to repositories.
+
+Let's not make a rule out of this.
+Each and every one of those proprietary tools has to be looked at on its own.
+E.g. some years ago there was quite a discussion about TrueCrypt and its 
+license which led to the exclusion of truecrypt from almost all major distros. 
+If that license issue isn't solved, I wouldn't change a jota of that decision.
+
+Oliver
+