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

Wolfgang Bornath molch.b at googlemail.com
Thu Jul 7 10:08:49 CEST 2011


2011/7/7 nicolas vigier <boklm at mars-attacks.org>:
> 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.

Yes, right. I made a mistake there - just replace "restrictive
license" with "patents" in my sentence.

-- 
wobo


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