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<H1>[Mageia-dev] rehashing the faac issue</H1>
<B>Frank Griffin</B>
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<I>Tue Oct 2 14:02:56 CEST 2012</I>
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<PRE>On 10/02/2012 07:50 AM, Wolfgang Bornath wrote:
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</I>><i> We have software in 4 different flavors:
</I>><i> 1. free software (FOSS), most of them distributed under any of the GPL versions
</I>><i> 2. non-free software, meaning they can not distributed under such
</I>><i> licenses as the GPL. Mostly it's closed source software (like firmware
</I>><i> for devices like graphic cards or some wifi chips)
</I>><i> 3. tainted software, this is cost-free but patented software. In
</I>><i> countries which obey software patents (like USA) it is not allowed to
</I>><i> be distributed.
</I>><i> 4. then there is software which is non-free AND tainted.
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</I>><i> Of course this special point #4 is a bit bureaucratic. As "tainted"
</I>><i> (aka patented) is the stronger restriction than non-free we should
</I>><i> also place faac into "tainted" as it matches the sentence from the
</I>><i> MGA1 notes anyway (as quoted in Christian's mail).
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</I>><i> In any way I agree that this more or less academical dispute about
</I>><i> faac should not make it impossible to make faac available.
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</I>That's my point. I get that the official definition says that tainted
stuff should be FOSS. I just don't understand WHY that restriction is
of interest to anybody.
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