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

[Michael Scherer]

Le dimanche 13 mars 2011 à 21:09 +0100, Samuel Verschelde a écrit :
> Le dimanche 13 mars 2011 21:01:15, Thomas Backlund a écrit :
> > sön 2011-03-13 klockan 21:55 +0200 skrev Tux99:
> > > During the review with my mentor Anssi of one of the packages I'm working
> > > on, the question came up what the appropriate repository for a package is
> > > that's both non-free (open source but not a FOSS license) and tainted
> > > (contains sw. that is covered by patents in some parts of the world).
> > > 
> > > Should a non-free+tainted package go in tainted, i.e. is the tainted repo
> > > for all tainted packages, both free and non-free
> > 
> > tainted, as thats a "bigger" issue than nonfree
> > 
> > --
> > Thomas
> 
> I would have said the opposite, so that using core + tainted you're sure to 
> get free software :)

The same.

Ie, a non-free may have more stringent distribution requirements than a
free software. 

PLF started as a way to distribute free softwares, the non-free part was
added later as we wanted to separate the 2 ( during a meeting in
Vienna ).



-- 
Michael Scherer