[Mageia-dev] rehashing the faac issue

Tue Oct 30 12:00:26 CET 2012

Hi *,
+
+On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 1:32 AM, Christiaan Welvaart
+<cjw at daneel.dyndns.org> wrote:
+> On Tue, 30 Oct 2012, Wolfgang Bornath wrote:
+>>
+>> There has been a wide consensus for the solution to put it into
+>> tainted as has been said in this thread as well. There are 2 options
+>
+> Each package in non-free must be inspected case-by-case to know if it can be
+> distributed/used, but their licenses are valid world-wide (because copyright
+> is pretty much universally accepted). The packages in tainted can all be
+> used/distributed *if* patents on software are not considered valid in the
+> country where the user/mirror resides. Do you really want to mix those two?
+
+Bad argument, as even with a separate repository these then *will* be mixed.
+As you cannot have "free" packages that depend on the nonfree-tainted
+in the free repo. Those would have to be put into nonfree-tainted as
+well.
+
+So nonfree-tainted will end up having "nonfree & tainted" and "free,
+but depends on nonfree-tainted" packages.
+
+I don't see a gain here.
+
+ciao
+Christian
+