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    <B>Wolfgang Bornath</B> 
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    <I>Thu Mar 24 12:03:08 CET 2011</I>
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<PRE>2011/3/24 Romain d'Alverny &lt;<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">rdalverny at gmail.com</A>&gt;:
&gt;<i>
</I>&gt;<i> Well, that's precisely debatable (and why I'll try to setup a relevant
</I>&gt;<i> survey through marcom). The ISO can be seen as a static commodity
</I>&gt;<i> storage; that it holds core and nonfree makes no such difference as
</I>&gt;<i> that those two media are available from the network without
</I>&gt;<i> discrimination.
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</I>&gt;<i> So yes, the ISO in itself would not be free anymore; but as long as
</I>&gt;<i> the install process does not pick into the nonfree media unless the
</I>&gt;<i> user asks to, what does it make an issue (not that I have no idea
</I>&gt;<i> about that, just that I'd like to see it expressed again from a
</I>&gt;<i> different POV of mine - and that will help for the survey definition
</I>&gt;<i> too).
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In the public appearance this would make a difference. As soon as
there is non-free contents on the ISO it is a non-free ISO. That we
provide non-free on the mirrors doesn't make Mageia a non-free distro,
only what we offer as &quot;products&quot;.
That's why I also don't like the idea to have a free ISO and an ISO
including core &amp; non-free.

&gt;<i> The alternative, if we're not to mix things on the static media, is to
</I>&gt;<i> have distinct ISOs: free and nonfree/tainted ones. Times the format:
</I>&gt;<i> DVD/CD/arch/USB through which we would have to decide to ease:
</I>&gt;<i> building, qa and distribution (we will have to choose a default one to
</I>&gt;<i> provide to visitors on the download page for instance).
</I>
No. As I already wrote: a small dualarch &quot;driver ISO&quot; is all that's needed.
No issue about what kind of distro Mageia supplies, no issue about
build efforts.

Plus the benefit of making the user aware of the difference.

-- 
wobo
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