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

Wed Mar 16 02:55:25 CET 2011

andre999 a écrit :
+>
+> 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 :) )
+...
+
+Take a look at our licensing policy page, basically a copy of Mandriva 
+policy at the moment :
+<http://mageia.org/wiki/doku.php?id=licensing_policy>
+It gives a very inclusive definition of acceptable licenses for "core".
+Even special licenses which are similar to FSF or OSI approved licenses 
+are acceptable.
+
+:)
+-- 
+André
+