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<H1>[Mageia-dev] Repository question: where do we put non-free+tainted RPMs?</H1>
<B>Thorsten van Lil</B>
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<I>Wed Jul 6 14:26:41 CEST 2011</I>
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<PRE>Am 06.07.2011 14:04, schrieb Ahmad Samir:
><i> On 6 July 2011 13:58, Romain d'Alverny<<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">rdalverny at gmail.com</A>> wrote:
</I>>><i> On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 12:10, Wolfgang Bornath<<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">molch.b at googlemail.com</A>> wrote:
</I>>>><i> If we go back to the beginning of the discussion where to put such
</I>>>><i> packages which were in PLF we made a clear difference:
</I>>>><i>
</I>>>><i> 1. All non-free goes into non-free
</I>>>><i>
</I>>>><i> 2. Software which may be illegal in some countries (mostly because of
</I>>>><i> licensing) will go into tainted.
</I>>>><i>
</I>>>><i> That's all. Clear and simple.
</I>>>><i>
</I>>>><i> The question about GPL or other free licenses is not touched by
</I>>>><i> tainted. So, everything which does not have to go to tainted will go
</I>>>><i> to free (core) or non-free, depending on it's status.
</I>>><i>
</I>>><i> Indeed. <A HREF="http://mageia.org/wiki/doku.php?id=licensing_policy#acceptable_licenses">http://mageia.org/wiki/doku.php?id=licensing_policy#acceptable_licenses</A>
</I>>><i> says:
</I>>><i>
</I>>><i> "The tainted section accepts software under a license that is might be
</I>>><i> free or open source and which cannot be redistributed publicly in
</I>>><i> certain areas in the world, or due to patents issues."
</I>>><i>
</I>>><i> Reformulating it in an other, more explicit way maybe:
</I>>><i> - "core" hosts 100% free software that can be redistributed anywhere
</I>>><i> (or almost, the world is a bit more complicated than that)
</I>>><i> - "nonfree" hosts non-free software that can be redistributed anywhere (same)
</I>>><i> - "tainted" hosts all the rest, be it free software or not.
</I>>><i>
</I>><i>
</I>><i> Third point is wrong, "a license that is might be free or open
</I>><i> source", which, I think, means only software with an open source
</I>><i> software License.
</I>><i>
</I>><i> Although the wording should be clearer / more precise.
</I>><i>
</I>
The reason why we have tainted is, that there are patents, which
restrain some user to use this software. So, it's a question of
legality, which should get the higher priority. The differentiation if
it's free or not-free is only a question of ideology.
Therefore, for me the situation is very simple. If there are
questionable patents for a software, we have to put it in tainted
(otherwise we destroy the whole idea of core/non-free/tainted). There is
no other option. We may can think about a tainted-free and
tainted-nonfree (like PLF) but IMHO it's not needed and as long as we
don't have such a repo, all tainted packages have to be put into tainted
(no matter what license they use).
Regards,
Thorsten
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