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

Tue Mar 15 11:44:42 CET 2011

On 15.03.2011 12:28, Michael Scherer wrote:
+> 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 :)
+
+What you say above is completely true.
+
+>> faac-1.28-3plf2011.0.src.rpm
+> 
+> The software license is LGPL 2 or later, according to Sophie
+> http://sophie.zarb.org/rpms/7f88a24475773b9426d03122bcaa521f
+
+It is tagged incorrectly. It contains ISO reference source code that
+forbids use in products that do not claim conformance to MPEG-2
+NBC/MPEG-4 standards.
+
+Actually faac is what this thread is about.
+
+>> 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
+
+
+-- 
+Anssi Hannula
+