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

Tue Mar 15 11:28:06 CET 2011

Le mardi 15 mars 2011 à 05:06 +0100, Tux99 a écrit :
+> 
+> To add some examples of 'tainted+non-free' packages (that also include
+> source code) I just came across in plf free (plf doesn't seem to be too
+> strict about their free/non-free subdivision):
+
+I was in Vienna in May 2004 when we first discussed the split with the 3
+others terrorists present ( but the change was effective 9 months
+later :
+http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.mandrake.plf.general/993 ), so I
+think I can call myself knowledgeable on the way things should be for
+PLF, despites having leaved the project some time ago. So if you
+provides examples, that's nice, but that's likely bugs.
+
+> amrnb-7.0.0.2-2plf2011.0.src.rpm
+> amrwb-7.0.0.3-2plf2011.0.src.rpm
+
+This one is interesting, because the whole code is free in the tarball,
+as this download the code from the internet at compile time. The
+resulting code is IMHO non-free. I would suggest to drop it and to use 
+http://sourceforge.net/projects/opencore-amr/ , which is more cleanly
+licensed ( Apache license ). That's how rpmfusion does.
+
+That's IMHO a bug that should be reported to PLF, unless Anssi
+disagree :)
+
+> faac-1.28-3plf2011.0.src.rpm
+
+The software license is LGPL 2 or later, according to Sophie
+http://sophie.zarb.org/rpms/7f88a24475773b9426d03122bcaa521f
+
+
+> Where will we put these in Mangeia? 'tainted' or 'non-free' or a new
+> 'tainted+non-free' repo?
+
+amrnb -> dropped, replaced by opencore-amr
+faac -> tainted
+
+
+-- 
+Michael Scherer
+
+