[Mageia-dev] shall i import sawmill rpm?

Michael Scherer misc at zarb.org
Wed Jul 27 11:36:07 CEST 2011


Le mercredi 27 juillet 2011 à 17:13 +0800, Kira a écrit :
> 在 Wed, 27 Jul 2011 17:06:05 +0800, Michael Scherer <misc at zarb.org>寫道:>
> > The license just partially reflect the existing export restriction of
> > the State Departement of the USAs.
> >
> > As this apply to every exportation ( at least, RH take it seriously, as
> > well as almost every commercial developers that hired a lawyer to redact
> > their EULA ), and that mean for example java-1.6.0-sun rpm, should we
> > move it to tainted, along with firefox ( mozilla foundation is US based
> > ), chromium ( google is US based ), and various RH softwares ( such as
> > system-config-printer ), or Novell one ( such as mono ) ?
> >
> > ( please note that the GPL has a dedicated section for that, see the
> > point 8 of the license, so they are not non-free due to that )
> >
> Only GPL licensed software included in Main repository?

Main doesn't exist here, that's Core. 
And no, you can also have BSD licensed software or others free software
license, according to the license policy. 

> Are we going to define which kind of license is granted into Main?

We already did.
-- 
Michael Scherer



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