[Mageia-dev] rehashing the faac issue

Tue Oct 2 13:26:38 CEST 2012

On 10/02/2012 04:03 AM, Guillaume Rousse wrote:
+>
+> Given the importance of this package for several multimedia-related 
+> software (it is a mandatory dependency for cinerella, for instance), I 
+> think it's time to revisit this decision, and rather look for a 
+> pragmatic solution rather than a merely bureaucratic one.
+
+I read the links, but I think the discussion would benefit from a 
+statement of exactly why people don't want nonfree software in tainted.
+
+At least for my part, I always viewed tainted as being the equivalent of 
+PLF, i. e. we'll put this stuff in there because it's legal where we 
+are, and you decide whether you want to mirror it and make your own 
+decision as to whether you want to use it.  I thought the whole point 
+was to segregate tainted stuff from everything else so that mirror 
+maintainers could avoid tainted yet still mirror the mainstream repos.
+
+If that's true, and tainted is just a dumping ground for stuff that we 
+have legal or philosophical problems putting anywhere else, then I don't 
+get the free/nonfree issue.
+