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<H1>[Mageia-dev] Gstreamer pfl codecs/plugins</H1>
<B>Romain d'Alverny</B>
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<I>Thu Mar 24 15:28:48 CET 2011</I>
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<PRE>On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 14:55, Frank Griffin <<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">ftg at roadrunner.com</A>> wrote:
><i> On 03/24/2011 09:45 AM, Romain d'Alverny wrote:
</I>>><i>
</I>>><i> <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>
</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> and
</I>>><i>
</I>>><i> <A HREF="http://mageia.org/wiki/doku.php?id=mirrors_policy#tainted">http://mageia.org/wiki/doku.php?id=mirrors_policy#tainted</A>
</I>>><i>
</I>>><i> "stuff we think we can redistribute, but that may have some patent
</I>>><i> issues or other restrictions in other countries"
</I>>><i>
</I>>><i> look like consistent with each other, althought the "what belongs / is
</I>>><i> allowed here must still be discussed" indeed looks like it's not
</I>>><i> frozen yet.
</I>><i>
</I>><i> The reason I ask is that, in perusing the PLF package descriptions which
</I>><i> include the reason the package is in PLF, the criteria seems to be "Mandriva
</I>><i> was afraid to include this in main/contrib for <fill in your own reason from
</I>><i> a large list>" .
</I>
So in the MDV context, that was valid for anything, true.
><i>  The Mageia policies try to enumerate specific reasons why
</I>><i> things will be put in tainted, but don't explcitly say that there's anything
</I>><i> we *wouldn't* put in tainted.  So it's hard to know whether tainted == PLF
</I>><i> or not.
</I>
Well I believe you should see this first as a concentric thing: Mageia
is made of core, nonfree and tainted.
* free software (OSI/FSF) goes in core;
* that for which we don't have source but can redistribute go in
nonfree; checked on a case-by-case basis;
* all the rest goes into tainted on a case-by-case study again;
things that likely either:
- have no free license but under really significant patent-threat;
Indeed, it should be distinctively made clear whether:
* tainted keeps a focus on free software that is under risk,
* or if it has a "all the rest that doesn't qualify for core or nonfree"
I'd favour the latter as a default rule, keeping the case-by-case
study for inclusion and leaving real life situations help us sort this
out - it's really not easy to draw a general rule out of only a few
practical cases.
Anyway, two definitions is bad, so we should move it in a single place.
Romain
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