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<H1>[Mageia-dev] Repository question: where do we put non-free+tainted RPMs?</H1>
<B>James Kerr</B>
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<I>Wed Jul 6 14:29:25 CEST 2011</I>
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<PRE>On 06/07/11 12:58, Romain d'Alverny wrote:
><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
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</I>>><i> 2. Software which may be illegal in some countries (mostly because of
</I>>><i> licensing) will go into tainted.
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</I>>><i> That's all. Clear and simple.
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</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)
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><i> - "tainted" hosts all the rest, be it free software or not.
</I>><i>
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I don't think that the last line is entirely consistent with what I
understood was Mageia's commitment to provide a free distro for those
users who want it. Such a user would have to investigate whether or not
a tainted package was free or nonfree, or not use the tainted repo at all.
Jim
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