[Mageia-dev] About panotools patent problem (and other problematic rpms)

Tue Feb 22 23:21:21 CET 2011

Op dinsdag 22 februari 2011 19:09:17 schreef andre999:
+[...]
+> <aside>
+> First of all, "tainted" in English implies that the software doesn't
+> work.  (Unless it refers to food, in which case it means "poisonous".)
+> So we should choose a more appropriate name, such as "constrained", or
+> use the Ubuntu approach and use a name which doesn't literally describe
+> the contents. ("Multiverse", in their case.)
+> Anything but something that implies that there is something inherently
+> wrong with the package in question.
+> That was one advantage of "plf", but of course that is already taken.
+> And it is certainly advantageous to include such packages directly on
+> Mageia mirrors.
+> </aside>
+[...]
+
+This reply is not meant for andre, but for people responding to his email:
+
+I clearly didn't respond to this, because this is aside, and in general the 
+preference of one user, we already had a big discussion about this, so please 
+let's not restart this one.
+
+and besides the aside, naming is unimportant in my view.
+