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

Mon Mar 14 21:49:13 CET 2011

Le dimanche 13 mars 2011 à 21:09 +0100, Samuel Verschelde a écrit :
+> Le dimanche 13 mars 2011 21:01:15, Thomas Backlund a écrit :
+> > sön 2011-03-13 klockan 21:55 +0200 skrev Tux99:
+> > > During the review with my mentor Anssi of one of the packages I'm working
+> > > on, the question came up what the appropriate repository for a package is
+> > > that's both non-free (open source but not a FOSS license) and tainted
+> > > (contains sw. that is covered by patents in some parts of the world).
+> > > 
+> > > Should a non-free+tainted package go in tainted, i.e. is the tainted repo
+> > > for all tainted packages, both free and non-free
+> > 
+> > tainted, as thats a "bigger" issue than nonfree
+> > 
+> > --
+> > Thomas
+> 
+> I would have said the opposite, so that using core + tainted you're sure to 
+> get free software :)
+
+The same.
+
+Ie, a non-free may have more stringent distribution requirements than a
+free software. 
+
+PLF started as a way to distribute free softwares, the non-free part was
+added later as we wanted to separate the 2 ( during a meeting in
+Vienna ).
+
+
+
+-- 
+Michael Scherer
+
+