[Mageia-dev] packaging amrwb ?

Wed Jun 20 14:38:04 CEST 2012

On Wed, 20 Jun 2012, Claire Robinson wrote:
+
+> On 20/06/12 13:05, Oliver Burger wrote:
+>> Am 20.06.2012 13:45, schrieb Simple w:
+>>> Appears to be different from faac case, because this one doesnt have a
+>>> GPL license, so it could be in non-free repository.
+>> The issue with faac is not, that it's partly GPL, the problem is, it's
+>> partly nonfree.
+>> Packages that are _pure_ OpenSource and patented are going into tainted.
+>> Packages that are non-free and not patented are going into nonfree.
+>> But this is nonfree and patented, unless someeone can prove me and
+>> wikipedia wrong.
+>> So it's a no-go.
+>>
+>> Oliver
+>>
+>
+> I don't want to add fuel to the fire but just out of interest, why is it 
+> that we don't allow nonfree-tainted in Tainted?
+>
+> I understand that open source purists may not want it but are we catering 
+> to a minority and ignoring a majority?
+
+So you are saying that someone who wants to have free and nonfree
+software in separate repositories is an open source purist and a
+minority, but you don't want to add fuel to the fire ?
+
+