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    <B>Wolfgang Bornath</B> 
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<PRE>2012/10/2 James Kerr &lt;<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">jim at jkerr82508.free-online.co.uk</A>&gt;:
&gt;<i> On 02/10/2012 13:58, Wolfgang Bornath wrote:
</I>&gt;&gt;<i>
</I>&gt;&gt;<i> 2012/10/2 James Kerr &lt;<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">jim at jkerr82508.free-online.co.uk</A>&gt;:
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</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> On 02/10/2012 12:26, Frank Griffin wrote:
</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i>
</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> At least for my part, I always viewed tainted as being the equivalent of
</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> PLF,
</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i>
</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i>
</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i>
</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> PLF had both free and non-free repo's.
</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i>
</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> If you include both free and non-free in tainted, which is probably the
</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> &quot;least bad&quot; solution, then there needs to be a way for FOSS enthusiasts
</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> (who
</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> choose to do so) to avoid the non-free packages - perhaps a statement in
</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> the
</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> package description would suffice.
</I>&gt;&gt;<i>
</I>&gt;&gt;<i>
</I>&gt;&gt;<i> Well, are you saying that tainted includes free packages although they
</I>&gt;&gt;<i> are subject to a patent?
</I>&gt;<i>
</I>&gt;<i>
</I>&gt;<i> Yes. Those are the only packages that are included at present in tainted.
</I>&gt;<i> The fact that a package includes software that may be encumbered by patent
</I>&gt;<i> claims does not make it non-free.
</I>
Oops, sorry, I just realize that my question reads just the opposite
of what I wanted to say (damn foreign langauge! :) To make my position
clearer:

IMHO a package is not free when it is subject to a patent. It may be
not &quot;non-free&quot; per definition of &quot;non-free software&quot; but is not free
nevertheless when it bears any restrictions because of patents or (in
some countries) legal issues.

It is a difference by strict definition but it makes no difference in
practical terms and usage.

-- 
wobo
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