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<H1>[Mageia-dev] Repository question: where do we put non-free+tainted RPMs?</H1>
<B>Anssi Hannula</B>
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TITLE="[Mageia-dev] Repository question: where do we put non-free+tainted RPMs?">anssi.hannula at iki.fi
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<I>Tue Mar 15 23:10:31 CET 2011</I>
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<PRE>On 13.03.2011 22:01, Thomas Backlund wrote:
><i> sön 2011-03-13 klockan 21:55 +0200 skrev Tux99:
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</I>>><i> During the review with my mentor Anssi of one of the packages I'm working
</I>>><i> on, the question came up what the appropriate repository for a package is
</I>>><i> that's both non-free (open source but not a FOSS license) and tainted
</I>>><i> (contains sw. that is covered by patents in some parts of the world).
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</I>>><i> Should a non-free+tainted package go in tainted, i.e. is the tainted repo
</I>>><i> for all tainted packages, both free and non-free
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</I>><i> tainted, as thats a "bigger" issue than nonfree
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I agree.
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Anssi Hannula
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