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

nicolas vigier boklm at mars-attacks.org
Thu Jul 7 10:04:12 CEST 2011


On Thu, 07 Jul 2011, Wolfgang Bornath wrote:

> I must admit I do not understand the cause of this discussion, maybe I
> am thinking in too simple ways. Free goes in core, non-free goes in
> non-free. If a non-free software has a restrictive license it goes in
> tainted. A free software can not have a restrictive license, if it has
> it is not free and goes in tainted.

Tainted is not about restrictive license but patents. A free software
can have a free license, but do something which is maybe patented.



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