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

Wed Mar 16 01:21:05 CET 2011

Tux99 a écrit :
+>
+> André, I agree with you, we never should have had the separation of
+> 'tainted' (and I argued that in the early days too) but that decision was
+> made a long time ago and is not up for debate here.
+> With regards to open source but not FOSS, there are many types of licenses
+> that source code can come with, not all of them meet the defintion of the
+> free software foundation: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html
+> Those that don't meet that definition are considered non free, this is just
+> a convention commonly used in the Linux world, personally I'm not too
+> attached to this convention, but again this is not up for debate here.
+> I hope this clarifies things for you! :)
+
+Don't forget that licenses accepted by OSI are acceptable as well.
+If you like, give me the designated license and I'll check it out for you.
+
+The Mageia license policy, as I understand it, is a little more open 
+than that of Mandriva, as well as that of Fedora.  (I stand to be 
+corrected, of course :) )
+
+Since you aren't enthusiastic about designating packages as "tainted", 
+why not put them in "core" or "non-free" until directly threatened ?
+As far as I know, there is no clear policy of when they should go in the 
+other repository, and even founding members have suggested this approach.
+Note also that putting a package in "tainted" means that it need not be 
+carried by all official mirrors.
+
+(By the way, my objection is essentially to the name, which implies that 
+there is something inherently wrong with the packages -- not the case if 
+one doesn't accept software patents, and the software works.)
+(Here in Canada software patents don't exist.)
+
+Note that there has been general discussion of improvements to the 
+installer which will allow, when installing core packages, to optionally 
+install related/suggested non-core packages from other repositories at 
+the same time -- even if these other repositories aren't activated.
+(Something I would like to contribute to myself.)
+
+These improvements should help your goals a lot.
+So don't give up :)
+
+-- 
+André
+