[Mageia-dev] [RFC] Moving various packages/codecs to tainted

Fri Jan 13 19:49:35 CET 2012

Op donderdag 12 januari 2012 02:32:41 schreef Anssi Hannula:
+> On 11.01.2012 16:01, Pascal Terjan wrote:
+> > On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 12:56, Anssi Hannula <anssi at mageia.org> wrote:
+> >> On 10.01.2012 15:07, Pascal Terjan wrote:
+> >>> On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 03:20, Anssi Hannula <anssi at mageia.org> wrote:
+> >>>> The problem is that that "balance" was achieved by sticking packages
+> >>>> in PLF/main/contrib semi-randomly. For example, H.264 decoders and
+> >>>> MPEG-4 video encoders are in main/core, while e.g. AAC audio decoders
+> >>>> are in PLF/tainted. If one'd put them into an order, IMO H.264 and
+> >>>> MPEG-4 would be much more prominent and tainted candidates instead of
+> >>>> AAC decoding... Also, in e.g. MPEG-4 case we have encoders both in
+> >>>> core and in tainted, e.g. we have ffmpeg in core, but xvid in
+> >>>> tainted.
+> >>> 
+> >>> I agree we need rules, but "being covered with patents" does not make
+> >>> sense, as the patent owner may agree with using it in free software.
+> >>> I think something like "No actively enforced patent" in core would be
+> >>> good.
+> >> 
+> >> Possibly, but how do you define that, exactly?
+> >> 
+> >> Does a licensing program count as "enforcing" or do you mean something
+> >> else?
+> > 
+> > Yes, that's what I meant
+> 
+> So it doesn't change anything regarding my original post, since all the
+> codecs I talked about have licensing programs.
+
+A) either we move all those with licensing programs into tainted, and make 
+isos contain tainted (since all mirrors ship tainted as well...).
+
+B) we put only actively enforced patents into tainted and don't have tainted 
+on iso...
+