[Mageia-dev] Mirror layout, round two

[Michael Scherer]

Le dimanche 28 novembre 2010 à 22:12 +0200, Thomas Backlund a écrit :

> So the mirror medias accordingly to all comments so far would be a simple:
> 
> * core
>    - enabled by default
>    - mirrors must mirror this media to be listed as a mirror
>    - only GPL stuff
>    - must be selfcontained
> 
> * nonfree
>    - disabled by default, installer will ask to enable it if
>      it detects hw that need driver/fw from here...
>    - mirrors must mirror this media to be listed as a mirror
>    - contains apps/drivers/firmware that are free to redistribute,
>      but we dont have GPL source for
>    - for example ati/nvidia drivers/firmware, Oracle Java, ...
> 
> * tainted
>    - disabled by default
>    - mirrors are free to not mirror this media
>    - stuff we think we can redistribute, but that may have some
>      patent issues or other restrictions in oter countries.

damned, if I had seen this mail sooner, I would not have written my 200
lines one ( that took 36 hours to write ).

I agree with this split.

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Michael Scherer