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<H1>[Mageia-dev] About panotools patent problem (and other problematic rpms)</H1>
<B>Maarten Vanraes</B>
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<I>Tue Feb 22 23:21:21 CET 2011</I>
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<PRE>Op dinsdag 22 februari 2011 19:09:17 schreef andre999:
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><i> <aside>
</I>><i> First of all, "tainted" in English implies that the software doesn't
</I>><i> work. (Unless it refers to food, in which case it means "poisonous".)
</I>><i> So we should choose a more appropriate name, such as "constrained", or
</I>><i> use the Ubuntu approach and use a name which doesn't literally describe
</I>><i> the contents. ("Multiverse", in their case.)
</I>><i> Anything but something that implies that there is something inherently
</I>><i> wrong with the package in question.
</I>><i> That was one advantage of "plf", but of course that is already taken.
</I>><i> And it is certainly advantageous to include such packages directly on
</I>><i> Mageia mirrors.
</I>><i> </aside>
</I>[...]
This reply is not meant for andre, but for people responding to his email:
I clearly didn't respond to this, because this is aside, and in general the
preference of one user, we already had a big discussion about this, so please
let's not restart this one.
and besides the aside, naming is unimportant in my view.
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