[Mageia-dev] Repository question: where do we put non-free+tainted RPMs?

[Ahmad Samir]

On 6 July 2011 13:58, Romain d'Alverny <rdalverny at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 12:10, Wolfgang Bornath <molch.b at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> If we go back to the beginning of the discussion where to put such
>> packages which were in PLF we made a clear difference:
>>
>> 1. All non-free goes into non-free
>>
>> 2. Software which may be illegal in some countries (mostly because of
>> licensing) will go into tainted.
>>
>> That's all. Clear and simple.
>>
>> The question about GPL or other free licenses is not touched by
>> tainted. So, everything which does not have to go to tainted will go
>> to free (core) or non-free, depending on it's status.
>
> Indeed. http://mageia.org/wiki/doku.php?id=licensing_policy#acceptable_licenses
> says:
>
> "The tainted section accepts software under a license that is might be
> free or open source and which cannot be redistributed publicly in
> certain areas in the world, or due to patents issues."
>
> Reformulating it in an other, more explicit way maybe:
>  - "core" hosts 100% free software that can be redistributed anywhere
> (or almost, the world is a bit more complicated than that)
>  - "nonfree" hosts non-free software that can be redistributed anywhere (same)
>  - "tainted" hosts all the rest, be it free software or not.
>

Third point is wrong, "a license that is might be free or open
source", which, I think, means only software with an open source
software License.

Although the wording should be clearer / more precise.

> Romain
>



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Ahmad Samir