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

Sat Feb 26 23:31:28 CET 2011

On 26.02.2011 22:20, andre999 wrote:
+> Anssi Hannula a écrit :
+>>
+>> On 26.02.2011 07:35, andre999 wrote:
+> ...
+>>> actually, any of those suggestions would be an improvement ;)
+>>> I did suggest "contrained".
+>>> Ubuntu uses "restricted" and/or "multiverse" (which include mostly
+>>> non-free packages), and there were a lot of other suggestions.
+>>> There was only ONE that seemed inappropriate.
+>>
+>> Ubuntu's "multiverse" and "restricted" contain non-free packages only.
+>> Packages in "tainted" are all free packages.
+> 
+> ok
+> just the Ubuntu web site repository descriptions indicate that
+> patent-threatened or legally restricted packages would go into these
+> repositories, along with the usual non-free.
+> I have no idea what they do in practice.
+
+They have fully enabled ffmpeg in main, and mplayer,x264,lame in
+universe. So patent-constrained pkgs do not appear to be put in multiverse.
+
+> do you mean that you consider that non-free packages should go into
+> non-free, even if threatened by legal or patent constraints ?
+
+Well, those don't really belong to either, so I'm unsure what would be
+done with those. However, I'm not aware of any such packages so it is a
+moot point :)
+
+-- 
+Anssi Hannula
+