[Mageia-dev] rehashing the faac issue

Tue Oct 2 13:19:26 CEST 2012

On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 10:20 AM, PhilippeDidier
+<philippedidier at laposte.net> wrote:
+>
+> Look at the closed bugs containing the word faac... there are other
+> programs than cinerella
+
+But none as mature, as powerful. But that's beside the point anyway.
+
+> Anyway Blogdrake repo proposes a faac rpm ...
+
+Never heard of blogdrake, seems to be a Spanish-only site...
+
+I don't understand the difference between tainted and non-free anyway
+(without reading definitions what goes into what repo), and I guess
+most users don't either.
+
+and BTW:
+http://www.mageia.org/en/1/notes/ reads:
+######
+The Tainted repository includes packages under various licenses, free
+and nonfree ones, but the main criteria for packages in this
+repository is that they may infringe patents and copyright laws in
+some countries in the world (e.g. multimedia codecs needed to play
+various audio/video files, packages needed to play commercial video
+DVD… etc);
+[...]
+######
+So I absolutely don't understand why there is so much fuzz about this
+topic/so much contradiction. There already was a sane definition.
+
+non-free is a misnomer. It should be named after what the mass of
+users cares about, whether it is free & "safe" to use or whether it
+might cause problems.
+
+So tainted is the right repo to put it in.
+
+Change the definition back to that of Mageia 1 and you're done.
+
+ciao
+Christian
+