[Mageia-dev] rehashing the faac issue

Thu Oct 4 17:21:10 CEST 2012

2012/10/4 Frank Griffin <ftg at roadrunner.com>:
+> On 10/04/2012 10:54 AM, Johnny A. Solbu wrote:
+>>
+>> Because software have bugs, even filters, whereas physical separation is
+>> not prone to the same errors.
+>
+>
+> Sure it is.  See my response to Wolfgang.
+>
+>
+>>> And if they don't trust us, they're reading the license themselves
+>>> anyway.
+>>
+>> That's not an easy task for commandline users. "urpmq -i foo" does not
+>> show the license tag.
+>>
+>
+> I didn't say it was easy, I said that anyone strongly interested in this who
+> doesn't trust us to get it right will be doing it, easy or hard.
+
+You do not seem to understand different levels in trust. There is no
+black OR white, rather shades of black and shades of white. Of course
+there is some trust in the packagers to place packages correctly in
+different branches depending on the licenses. But having all
+free/non-free packages in one repo, separated just by a software
+filter adds an additional level of trust in the packagers AND in the
+software filter.
+
+Well, enough said. I think I have stated my position and the reasons,
+I am not part of the decision making group anyway.
+
+-- 
+wobo
+