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

Wolfgang Bornath molch.b at googlemail.com
Fri Jul 8 11:16:38 CEST 2011


2011/7/8 Thorsten van Lil <tvl83 at gmx.de>:
> Am 08.07.2011 10:42, schrieb Wolfgang Bornath:
>>
>> 2011/7/8 James Kerr<jim at jkerr82508.free-online.co.uk>:
>>>
>>> This thread has strayed far from the original question, which could be
>>> re-stated as:
>>>
>>> Should tainted free software and tainted nonfree software be commingled
>>> in a
>>> single tainted repository?
>>
>> How can tainted software be free software at the same time?
>>
>
> Because free is a matter of license, while tainted is a matter of patents.
> For example, the libdvdcss2 is free, as the the source-code is open (GPL)
> but it touches the patent issue, so it's tainted.

Yes, if you regard patents not as a criterium for free or non-free
then this division makes sense.
>From that point of view we need the same structure as PLF
(tainted-free and tainted-non-free).

-- 
wobo


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