[Mageia-dev] rehashing the faac issue

Thu Oct 4 17:07:18 CEST 2012

On 10/04/2012 10:46 AM, Wolfgang Bornath wrote:
+> There are/were enough Mandriva mirrors who did not mirror PLF at all. 
+
+I'm well aware of that, since PLF wouldn't have existed otherwise. The 
+question concerned mirroring nonfree, not tainted.  The reasons for not 
+mirroring each of these is quite different.
+
+> A built-in filter in a software is not the same as a separate branch. 
+> It is a difference between seeing free and non-free in separate 
+> branches and just believe that there is a filter and that it is 
+> working all the time. There have been bugs in urpmi, why do you regard 
+> that filter to be perfect per se? It's a difference between a 
+> developer/packager who uploads a package to a branch by intention and 
+> a packager who just adds a tag (or may have forgotten to add it). A 
+> packager who just forgot to add a dependency is no hoax - why do you 
+> think a packager who forgot to add a tag is a hoax? Or a myth? 
+
+Sorry, I don't buy that.  If a packager omits a tag or chooses a wrong 
+repository, the reason is probably the same - he didn't read the license 
+and that means the package is going to be misfiled under either scheme.  
+And the only way a FOSS activist is going to catch this is to read the 
+license himself if he has any doubts.
+