[Mageia-dev] Gstreamer pfl codecs/plugins

Thu Mar 24 14:55:49 CET 2011

On 03/24/2011 09:45 AM, Romain d'Alverny wrote:
+>
+> http://mageia.org/wiki/doku.php?id=licensing_policy#acceptable_licenses
+>
+> "The tainted section accepts software under a license that is might be
+> free or open source and which cannot be redistributed publicly in
+> certain areas in the world, or due to patents issues."
+>
+> and
+>
+> http://mageia.org/wiki/doku.php?id=mirrors_policy#tainted
+>
+> "stuff we think we can redistribute, but that may have some patent
+> issues or other restrictions in other countries"
+>
+> look like consistent with each other, althought the "what belongs / is
+> allowed here must still be discussed" indeed looks like it's not
+> frozen yet.
+
+The reason I ask is that, in perusing the PLF package descriptions which 
+include the reason the package is in PLF, the criteria seems to be 
+"Mandriva was afraid to include this in main/contrib for <fill in your 
+own reason from a large list>" .  The Mageia policies try to enumerate 
+specific reasons why things will be put in tainted, but don't explcitly 
+say that there's anything we *wouldn't* put in tainted.  So it's hard to 
+know whether tainted == PLF or not.
+