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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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<I>Wed Jul 6 21:54:51 CEST 2011</I>
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<PRE>On 06.07.2011 16:04, Ahmad Samir wrote:
><i> On 6 July 2011 14:27, 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 14:04, Ahmad Samir <<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">ahmadsamir3891 at gmail.com</A>> wrote:
</I>>>><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> 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> I understand this as: software that might be free or open source =>
</I>>><i> can be not free or open source. "might" expressed the possibility, not
</I>>><i> the requirement. IOW, tainted does not discriminate free and non free
</I>>><i> software.
</I>><i>
</I>><i> It does differentiate; given that Anssi is the one who worked on the
</I>><i> tainted policy the most, and he doesn't think faac should be in
</I>><i> tainted, is enough to say that the wording in the wiki needs to
</I>><i> express our stance on the issue in a clearer way...
</I>
I don't remember saying that. Any consistent solution is acceptable to
me (including put-in-nonfree, put-in-tainted, put-in-nowhere).
There was opposition (from e.g. misc) to having nonfree stuff in
tainted, though.
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Anssi Hannula
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