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

[Romain d'Alverny]

On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 14:04, Ahmad Samir <ahmadsamir3891 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

I understand this as: software that might be free or open source =>
can be not free or open source. "might" expressed the possibility, not
the requirement. IOW, tainted does not discriminate free and non free
software.

> Although the wording should be clearer / more precise.

Indeed.

Romain